Word: sigfrid
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...Mother Eileen Heckart mangles French and Italian phrases and listens raptly to off-key recordings of her opera-diva days. She is a Venus's-fly-trap who has devoured "Fa" (he is too contemptible to deserve the other syllable) and dragooned Daughter Lakme (Susan Anspach) and Son Sigfrid (Robert Drivas) into performing strange little rituals like strewing the air with paper petals and striking heraldic poses with Wagnerian swords...
This nihilistic trio proceeds to torment and destroy Sigfrid's guest-for-the-night, a gentle deviate dressed in a dress. Of course, the playwright is not going to let this poor fellow immolate himself on the fence without giving the audience his maudlin credo: "Shakespeare, Florence [the city in Italy], someone in the park. That's what I believe in." Alert the park department...
...variation on Albee's laconic, spiritless father in The American Dream. Mother is the voracious woman of Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, in fright wigs a la Tiny Alice. Lakme wears the little-girl dresses that the sex-hungry baby sitter wore in Oh Dad; Sigfrid half chokes her to death, as the boy in that play strangled the baby sitter. And the mortal baiting of the homosexual in Bump follows the cruelly bantering tone and logic of the venomous get-the-guests game in Virginia Woolf. The effect is worse than theatrical incest...
That same day, Republican Challenger Sigfrid ("Sig") Unander, 49, sat wearily in a Eugene hotel lobby, took off a shoe and displayed a steel arch support. "Take a look at the campaigner's best friend," he said. "I'm tired, and I've gained 15 pounds. It's those damned desserts they serve you before you get up to speak. You tell the lady sitting next to you that they're good, and she gets up and gets another...
...example and mysticism.* Among the 25 bits and pieces in the crumbling reliquary in Vadstena Abbey, HjortsjÖ hit a hagiological jackpot: parts of no less than seven men and six women, including St. Bridget's daughter St. Catherine, St. Bridget's confessor Peter of Alvastra, St. Sigfrid, and-without much doubt-St. Bridget herself...