Word: rings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begin with. The 19-member troupe does far better as a whole pushing the decibel level to something just short of a primal scream than do any of the principals, some of whom seem completely inexperienced as vocalists. Of the main players, Calvin Wolk, as Berger, the macho ring leader, and Jeff Bercuvitz, as Claude, the occasionally ambivalent side kick, project the message of rejectionism and individuality most effectively. Larnett Son also belts out several impressive leads, including a soulful version of "Abie Baby," a cynical tribute to the author of the Emancipation Proclamation...
...Negotiator Habib has been operating for almost a month, is comfortably situated in the hills outside East Beirut. The tough and tight-lipped Habib has had little to say in public about the progress of negotiations, but it is known that he sternly told the Israelis to remove their ring of tanks from around the palace of his neighbor, Lebanese President Elias Sarkis, who happens to live across the road...
...night the moon makes a perfect crescent, cradling a star between its points like an Arab flag. At 2 a.m. Israeli jets fly low over the hotel, creating astonishing booms. The ears ring, stunned. In the black sky two sulfurous flares glow sickly yellow, blaze momentarily, then disappear before an orange spray of machine-gun bullets...
...Lorena Hickok, a stocky onetime A.P. reporter nine years her junior. An entirely typical letter written by Eleanor on March 7,1933, begins, "Hick darling, All day I've thought of you . . . Oh! I want to put my arms around you. I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it & think she does love me, or I wouldn't be wearing...
...fond of 2 Henry IV--indeed I am found of it too-but he should realize that the whole story cannot be presented in one night any more than can Wagner's four-day Ring cycle. The tale takes four plays to tell, but each one is self-sufficient and intelligible by itself Attempts to conflate two or more plays have been only partly successful-as Orson Welles discovered in his 1965 film version, Chimes at Midnight...