Word: shrillings
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...people who think opera is more than shrill gibberish, Channel 2 will present Beverly Sills in "Manon." Aired live from Lincoln Center on Tuesday at 8 p.m., Sills will clash directly with the sixth game of the series. I may be showing my breeding here, but you know which one I will be watching. After all, 1963 only comes back two or three times in a lifetime. The Yanks...
...message from Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat to Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was shrill and urgent: "Our forces are under heavy Israeli attack. Enemy warplanes are overhead. We need help desperately." Visiting southern Lebanon to persuade Palestinian fighters there to accept a peace arrangement with Lebanese Christians, the Palestine Liberation Organization leader suddenly found himself under fire. Arafat and his men were besieged at Beaufort Castle-a historic Crusader fort in the shadow of Mount Hermon-not only by Christian gunners but also by Israeli artillery. Under cover of those guns, Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers rumbled across...
while the shrill verve...
...next question, of course, is whether or not two really superb actors could carry it off. It seems unlikely. Angel is occasionally rather shrill, and Dash is frequently stiff, but the fault seems to lie more with the book and direction than with the actors. Both of them have relatively good voices, and once in a while they manage to engage the audience's sympathy despite the play's flaws; but the cliches destroy the effect almost immediately. We can cheer Angel's decision to break out of the marriage when her husband has an affair--Angel does a brilliant...
...Taxation without representation!" Once again that shrill cry was heard from rebellious New Englanders as some of the residents of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard voted last week to secede from Massachusetts-and sported secession bumper stickers. They were protesting a redistricting plan under which Martha's Vineyard would lose the seat that it has had in the state legislature for 285 years (TIME, March 21). In the unlikely event the islands cast themselves off, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island have offered to take them under their banner. Meanwhile, some of the summer crowd are lobbying...