Word: tigress
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...lights went up again and the orchestra filed offstage, leaving the audience murmuring in confusion. Suliotis had asked for an unscheduled intermission in order to pull herself together-and let the audience cool down a bit. It must have worked. She returned-eyes flashing, pacing the stage like a tigress-and finished the act with a fiery, rafter-ringing performance...
...adaptation (Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate). Zeffirelli has refurbished the oft-told tale by styling it with the brio of the 16th century commedia dell'arte. Moreover, his casting seems to be a case of art's imitating life: Elizabeth Taylor as the sharp-tongued tigress, Kate, and Richard Burton as her hard-nosed trainer, Petruchio...
...Homecoming Vivien plays temptress and tigress, an enigmatic queen of the snarling jungle in her in-laws' house. Her hooded hazel eyes crinkle with bemusement, sag in boredom, flash with killing contempt or sexual electricity. Her fellow actors are all members in high standing of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, but it is Vivien who overpowers them all as the household whore-mother...
...that she shed an aura of lurid supernaturalness. Dumas the elder described her voice as "a spring that ripples and leaps over golden pebbles." One awed critic wrote that watching her was as fascinating as watching a wild animal in a cage. She herself apparently felt like a great tigress stalking among fluttering doves; she always claimed that she once tried to persuade a famous surgeon to graft a tiger's tail to her spine so that she could lash it about when she got angry. To her fans, she was known as "Sarah the Divine," or sometimes...
MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). Host Marlin Perkins tracks deep into Indian jungles for his film, "The Tigers of Sariska," starring a Bengal tigress and her two cubs...