Word: rigg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will take effect only after 16 of the 20 sponsors formally approve its terms, a process that will probably extend well into next year. Even so, many environmentalists oppose any thought of disturbing the frigid region. The treaty "is a sellout of the environment to mining interests," charged Kelly Rigg, Antarctica campaign director of Greenpeace International, an environmental group that operates the only independent research station on the continent. Greenpeace, which plans to lobby against treaty approval in several countries, wants the continent to remain an international wildlife park...
...felt in 1971 like a put-down of old-fashioned musicals for their saccharine irrelevance has evolved into an unabashed celebration of revolving multicolored staircases, grandes dames in glittery dresses and kick-stepping lines of chorus boys in top hats. One of the new numbers, performed deadpan by Diana Rigg, is a striptease ending in a bubble bath. The original Follies might have inspired the wisecrack that nostalgia isn't what it used to be, but in this version, it certainly...
...youthful struggles in a tinkly, ironic forerunner of A Chorus Line's What I Did for Love; Who's That Woman?, a realization by a brassy belter (Lynda Baron) of how age has crept up on her; Could I Leave You?, an outpouring of vitriol from a neglected wife (Rigg); Losing My Mind, the pathetic admissions of a suppliant lover (Julia McKenzie). Sondheim's best lyric ever is I'm Still Here, an anthem of survival that compresses four decades of social history into the battered but unrepentant cry of a faded star. It gets a showstopping performance by Dolores...
Last spring in London, John Dexter directed Rex Harrison and, as the sisters, Diana Rigg and Rosemary Harris in a production so dazzlingly elegant that the final, abrupt catastrophe seemed a nightmare from which the descending curtain would deliver the audience. Now Harrison, a strangely serene fatalist of a patriarch, has come to Broadway in Anthony Page's more earthbound revival. These are not Olympians playing at mortal games but overage children playing blindman's buff as the apocalypse closes in on them. Still, they are Shaw's creatures, and in this splendid, savory play they...
...grip of mortality shortening every Olivier breath, each gesture can seem heroic, each line he utters a precious gift from the depleting stock of his time. But there are reasons beyond enlightened sentimentality to treasure this Lear. To support him Olivier has assembled an actors' aristocracy: Diana Rigg and Dorothy Tutin as Lear's treacherous daughters Regan and Goneril, Colin Blakely as the faithful Kent, John Hurt as Lear's Fool, Leo McKern as old Gloucester, David Threlfall (Smike in the R.S.C.'s Nicholas Nickleby) as Gloucester's loving son Edgar. Olivier has pruned...