Word: sabina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this brief, exalted account of his youth and his country's decline, the author summons memories of Warsaw when intellectuals argued the merits of Marxism, Zionism, atheism and love-above and below all, love. The preternaturally shy Isaac had his difficulties with older women and young ones. But Sabina, Stefa, Gina were as much a part of his education as the volumes he held like a lover. ("I realized," he recalls of one liaison, "that in moments of desperation people forsake all reason.") In time, Singer was to find a greater passion: writing. It is the one truly requited...
...acting. You transcend to the character, and she takes you through her journey. What you seek is to be possessed." Earlier this year Ashley was totally possessed by the role of Maggie during her highly acclaimed New York performance in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. Then cast as Sabina in Thornton Wilder's 1942 comedy The Skin of Our Teeth, she showed herself to be equally consumed during the show's 2½-month tour through Birmingham, Washington. D.C., and Boston. ("It's the hardest thing I've ever done," she said at one point...
...book's episodic narrative grows out of the resulting disasters that pile on the local populace - especially on Heroine Sabina Boxham, whose brother wants to sell the old family estate...
...Director Russell makes every character grotesque, every bar of music programmatic. Ballets are transformed into pastoral scenes, concertos into imaginary duels. In a crescendo of vulgarity, the 1812 Overture becomes, in Tchaikovsky's beleaguered brain, an execution. Each cannon shot lops off the head of a tormentor: sister (Sabina Maydelle), patron, lover...