Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...materialized out of a five-minute affair on a haystack. Her father is dead. Her mother, more feverish at lovemaking than at housekeeping, traipses around with an alcoholic salesman. So Jo takes a lover. Unfortunately she chooses a sailor. She winds up without a husband, with child...
...runaways did not get far. DeSalvo's two companions drunkenly telephoned their surrender from a bar in a Boston suburb. And after 33 hours of freedom, the self-styled Strangler was captured, wearing a sailor's uniform, in a clothing store in Lynn, 40 miles from the hospital. There was no struggle, and DeSalvo, who had pleaded in vain for psychiatric help, said plaintively: "Maybe now they'll believe it's a mental condition...
Michael Ellman's sailor was sweet, if a little out of tune, and Joyce Gregorian's voice and musicianship as the 2nd woman were pleasant when she could be heard. In the more important role of Belinda, Maureen McGuire sang gracefully, although her tone was occasionally a little too tgiht. Her unhurried and slightly restrained approach to her role was effective. Akiva Kaminski was curiously costumed as Aeneas, with what looked like a red Coop scarf around his neck. A baritone singing a tenor role, he sang most of his part with an annoying wobble, and sounded strained...
...heroine (Maureen Stapleton) is a kind of common woman's Phaedra. Just as the Greek Queen went mad in her passion for her stepson Hippolytus, this Sicilian widow near New Orleans goes mad in her passion for the memory of her dead truck-driver husband. When a young sailor lights the fires of love in the eyes of her 15-year-old daughter (Maria Tucci), the widow turns fiercely moralistic. Then the image of her late husband appears, another truck driver (Harry Guardino) with an identical rose tattoo on his chest, and she abandons herself to the power...
...Eugene Boudin, son of a sailor, the choice was simple: either go to sea or paint it. Boudin opted for the artist's path, and the world has been in his debt ever since. The poet Baudelaire was astounded. From Boudin's paintings, he wrote, it was possible to "guess the season, the hour and the wind." To Camille Corot, he was "the king of the skies." And in the 20th century, Georges Braque, looking back, said flatly: "Boudin invented the seashore...