Word: workman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soldiers with ruthless efficiency. But a decade of Provo bloodshed, climaxed by the wanton murder of Lord Mountbatten in Southern Ireland last August, has eroded much of the I.R.A.'s support in the largely Catholic Republic. "They started well but now they're Communists," growled a Dublin workman over a pint of Guinness last week. "They don't want Irish unity...
Such questions of origin and purpose aside, however, the Leverett crew deserves credit for putting together a show without any embarrassingly bad moments and with some rivetingly good ones as well. A workman-like air prevails in the Leverett Old Library, as though the performers want to tell the audience. "We promised you nothing more than a collection of Jacques Brel songs, and here they are." There's a feebly executed but well-meaning attempt to create coffee-house atmosphere--the audience trades its ticket stubs during intermission for a cup of coffee and a croissant--but the floodlit cavernous...
...Nunzio is on hand to help Pavarotti learn his new role in La Gioconda. Beyond the big French doors the sea glistens invitingly, and the opera houses of the world seem far away. Yes, work must be done; but first, perhaps, a spin in the cabin cruiser? A workman arrives to fix the pool; he must be invited in for a glass of wine. The three Pavarotti daughters wander through, or his wife Adua settles in a corner; an interlude of familial chatting and joking is irresistible...
...celebrity-studded staff of last fall's hit parody Not the New York Times is back, this time with a send-up of tomorrow's news, The 80s: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade 1980-1989. Due out next month, the 288-page, large-format book (Workman Publishing; $14.95; paperback $6.95) offers a fantastical but not utterly implausible history of "hot years, cold years, big years, little years, sweet years, sour years, yes-years, no-years...
...these improbable doings be lost. The result is that Peter Sellers, in the key double role, must play his part as the substitute king very straight. In this version he is not a gentleman, but a London hansom cab driver. Sellers makes something quite affecting of this honest workman, intruding his democratic values and lower-class common sense on Middle European court politics at the turn of the century. Sellers must save his best comic efforts for the prince's role. He makes him into a perfect twit, a gambling, womanizing, cowardly wastrel, complete with an absolutely splendid lisp...