Word: violas
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Like most of the late romances, Twelfth Night's confusion arises in part from a tearful tale of past woe. Viola (Elizabeth McGovern) has lost her twin brother in a tempest at sea, and assuming him dead, disguises herself in his clothing to pay tribute to his memory. This causes her considerable discomfort, however, since she is forced to hide her love for her "fellow" friend Curio (James Bodge). Add to this Curio's lover Olivia (Margaret Reed) falling unwittingly head over heels for McGovern, and you have the makings of a maze that keeps both actors and audience...
...part, a good portion of the play's success owes itself to McGovern, best known for her acclaimed screen performances in Ordinary People and Ragtime. McGovern's history of playing sophisticated, mildly brash characters equips her well for the role of Viola, and the physical similarity between her and her stage brother Antonio (John Leighton) makes the ruse all the more entertaining. Although McGovern does have a tendency to draw out the delivery of her lines, disrupting the otherwise lively syncopation of the rest of the cast, her performance is, on the whole, solid...
...summit of a mountain of American treasures that are preserved in a vast building on Constitution Avenue in Washington. This historical storehouse, 50 years old this year, is celebrated in The National Archives of the United States (Abrams; 289 pages; $49.50), with a knowledgeable text by Herman J. Viola, director of the National Anthropological Archives and photographs by Jonathan Wallen. Presidential papers go back to George Washington; State Department records to Revolutionary War naval prize cases; census records to the first one, in 1790. There are Mathew Brady's photographs, and Walker Evans' too, and confiscated photo albums...
...pastor here is a doll," said Catherine Castle, sitting at a table with Al and Viola DuPuis. "We're about to go to dinner, and this is just the nicest place to stop for a drink. The DuPuises are taking...
...plants provided them with their first paychecks and a chance to get out of the house. Rosie the Riveter became an overnight symbol of competence and independence, though not all women finished work looking like Goldie Hawn in Swing Shift. Peggy Terry, who loaded shells at a plant in Viola, Ky., recalls that the tetryl in explosives turned skin, hair and eyeballs orange: "The only thing we worried about," she says, "was other women thinking we had dyed our hair." Evelyn Fraser, a former WAC captain in Europe, had more somber preoccupations: "The shocking thing was to walk s among...