Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brief moment at Manhattan's St. Regis hotel, the '30s notion that hearts were made to be broken was revived. The spiritualist: former Liverpudlian Mabel Mercer, 73, who began singing 60 years ago and went on to become the Madame de Sévigné of the supper clubs. Seated in a Louis XV armchair, Mercer held the kind of wry musical conversation on affairs of the heart that has made a minor art form of ballad singing and influenced singers from Billie Holiday to Barbra Streisand. Aware that it is her phrasing and timing rather than...
Some 200 years later, royalty's ragged remnant as well as the restless rich and those who aspire to such status still crave an invitation to Versailles. They are even willing to pay $235 a head for a floor show and supper in the now-termite-infested palace. Of course, the servants must be bewigged, the brocade and baubles as abundant as in the days of Louis and Marie. And so it was last week, thanks to a whim of American Fashion Publicist Eleanor Lambert...
...stage front to Duncan's chamber, or the massing of figures in the several group scenes. And the special effects people do very well with difficult material: Banquo is as ghostly as anyone could ask in a green light, posed behind Macbeth's chair like Christ in The Last Supper. And the procession of silhouetted kings that show Banquo's line to be are reassuring because young Malcolm seems too wimpy to prove right royal, after having been put on at the end. With Birnam Wood, alas, all we get are a few streaky branches being figurative on the backdrop...
Taddeo Gaddi: fresco, the Last Supper (Museum of Santa Croce...
...There are always two levels to Moscow life. One evening you may entertain a couple of editors of a party paper, the next a group of dissenting intellectuals. A lavish lunch with an official and a cold supper with the family of a political prisoner are part of the correspondent's regular range here...