Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...towering command of the stage, she portrayed Lucia as a strong-willed girl who fights her tormentors every note of the way. Helped by an absolutely uncut version of Donizetti's score, she progressed from matter-of-fact girlishness through angry submission to a raging, cataclysmic Mad Scene...
...plays, Edward Albee's Tiny Alice cannot really be revived since it was never alive. The only scene with any vitality is the venomous opening interchange between a cardinal and a lawyer who were once schoolmates. The metaphysical blah about God, saintliness and martyrdom are as obfuscating as ever. On opening night, an astute 14-year-old girl summed up all that needs to be said of Tiny Alice: "I hate plays with hidden significance...
...seconds one night last spring, the blinding flash of a huge meteor lit up the sky over central Mexico. A short time later, a B57 sped to the scene from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Its mission was to collect any debris that might still be adrift after the fireball's searing entry into the earth's atmosphere. For the second time in history, investigators had been alerted quickly enough to seek such dust, which provides invaluable clues to the origin and chemical makeup of meteorites...
...thought it was perfectly easy to do anything that Shakespeare had done") and developed a lifelong passion for history and biography. "I had a childhood identification with Mary Queen of Scots," she says. "I would get some of my seven brothers and sisters to act out the execution scene, with me playing Mary and saying very dramatically, 'Don't cry, good people...
...word manuscript. Drafts in progress were pinned to her husband's pillow at night with a note: "Mark an X where you get bored." Her neck became dislocated from the constant typing, but she remained so emotionally involved that she could weep while writing the execution scene. "I know it sounds affected, but after we had been together three years it seemed terrible that she had to go through all that...