Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bravo, Helmut Schmidt, for your superb courage and sangfroid. The world was watching in agony for the fate of the hostages and the credibility of the democratic process...
...accoladas for this production of The Club must go primarily to its troop of stars. Katherine Benfer, Lisa McMillan, Maggie Task and Carolyn Val-Schmidt succeed spectacularly in their masquerade as males (as do Jean Bonard as the club's waiter, Cookie Harlin as the bellboy, and Catherine cappiello as the maestro). The four women manage to mask their sex completely, making the play's conclusion unexpected and delightful, rather than just a foolish coda to a musical frolic. While the actresses use gestures and facial expressions skillfully, it is their vocal talents that carry the play. The Club...
...upper class hauteur--to be gleefully chauvinistic, without the vaguest hint of guilt at their authoritative misjudgments of women. In a larger sense, the quartet was to exemplify all such men of affluence. But this is precisely where the show stumble, for Benfer, Mc Millan, Task and Val-Schmidt all work too hard at aping this stereotype. Striving to be warbling Everymen, they fail to make their characterizations personal enough to be individually endearing. Collectively, they do not more than communicate a state of mind pervasive among males of a specific period and class; in a retrospect, their renditions coalesce...
...hours of the rescue, three members of the Baader-Meinhof gang were found dead in their prison cells in Stuttgart-almost certainly as the result of a suicide pact. Their anarchist allies in the Red Army Faction took up the cry of "political murder," and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt warned his countrymen to expect revenge...
West Germany, meanwhile, was bury-.ng its dead. In Stuttgart, Chancellor Schmidt and 700 official mourners drawn from the ranks of government, business and labor attended a state funeral for Schleyer. As police sharpshooters perched on the rooftops of buildings that surrounded St. Eberhard's Church, President Walter Scheel in his eulogy described the struggle against terrorism as "the fight of civilization against barbarians." Declared Scheel: "If this flame is not smothered immediately, the brushfire will spread over the whole world...