Word: tigress
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...ball, and the past unfolded itself to the Master as he sat hunched over a bowl of chicken soup in Flambaum's, the famous kosher restaurant in Paris..." And, almost invariably, the Perelman opening moves are as fine as always. For example, the beginning of "All Precincts Beware--Pater Tigress Loose" is a vintage piece--" Saturnine, Tweedy Gabe Hammerschlag, head of N.Y.P.D.'s Confidence Detail, struck a match on his desk top and, sucking the flame into the bowl of his pipe, eyed me meditatively. Gabe and I had known each other ever since 1953, when I had helped...
...stars. A Chorus Line has formed 2,544 times since 1975, and an orphanage full of Annies has sung Tomorrow for 4½ years, eight shows a week. The Pirates of Penzance is the flagship in a fleet of lively revivals. Lena Home prowls the stage like a liberated tigress, purring and growling out a couple of dozen standards in a voice as supple and gorgeous as she is, and proving that Broadway still needs her when she's 64. Some shows have jettisoned the libretto and returned to basics: all singin' (Ain't Misbehavin'), all dancing (Dancin'). all burlesque (Sugar...
Bacall is a tigress of a performer, and she stalks through the musical like a supremely sophisticated lady who would never dream of sheathing her claws. From that growly, smoky voice, seemingly filtered through bourbon and cigarettes, to the lightning stride and the imperiously tossed head, she is a creature of animal grace and jungle danger. Bacallelujah...
...actor of liquid fire and the keenest intelligence to carry all of that off, and Morgan Freeman accomplishes it in this rousing production of the play at Joseph Papp's off-Broadway Public Theater. It also requires one other thing, a figure of equal mettle in the tigress role of Coriolanus' mother, Volumnia...
Princeton threatened to overtake Harvard in the track events in part because Pat Gopaul, Harvard's strongest runner, was sidelined by an injury suffered last week at the New Englands. Star Tigress Jill Pilgrim was touted to lead a Princeton win in the 880 relay; but the Harvard team of Kim Claremont, Leslie Sims, Rice and Kathy Dorsey scored an upset victory when a poorly-passed baton slowed the Princeton foursome...