Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Julie Lynn Holmes, 1971 World Ladies Silver Medalist, and 1969, 1970, 1971 United States Ladies Silver Medalist...
Inside the theater, on boards once trod by such creations as Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, a white-robed, rock-age Jesus Christ now strides barefoot. He arrives onstage most phallically, rising like a glittering crocus out of a chalice that somewhat resembles those silvered bowls in which hotels serve grapefruit. He departs crucified on a Daliesque golden triangle that is slowly projected toward the audience by a hidden cherrypicker lift. In Jesus' company come a sweetly sensuous, cheek-kissing Mary Magdalene, a quintet of Jewish high priests who call for a "final solution" to their Jesus problem, and King...
...Judas. If Christ was really divine, after all, then Judas was merely the instrument of his will. And if Christ was merely a great teacher and prophet who in mid-career fell prey to delusions of grandeur and a persecution complex, then Judas ?those 30 pieces of silver aside?was merely doing what he thought was right. The latter is the view, anyway, suggested by Jesus Christ Superstar. From the beginning, Judas worries about Jesus the way a friend and key adjutant would advise an adored rock singer who has gone spoiled, or the leader of a political movement...
...Wodehouse in near-perfect form. In no time at all, the Earl of Sidcup has caught Bertie in an innocent but compromising position with his fiancée, Florence has threatened to marry him, and Runkle has promised to jail him for the theft of his 17th century silver porringer...
Wright Morris has been married twice but has no children. At 61, he is as spare as his prose. A gentle-looking, though apparently rough-hewn character, he wears a subdued lion's mane of silver-white hair. For years he has made some of his living at part-time jobs, especially teaching. He is currently at Princeton for a year. During the past decade he has been a creative-writing instructor at troubled San Francisco State, an excellent place to get acquainted with the kind of radical young whom he treats in Fire Sermon with ambiguous reserve...