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...fairy-tale plot and flowery sentiments. Miller treats it as either hypocritical or irrelevant. He turns the casket scenes into occasions for extravaganzas of comic stage business. In the famous lyric dialogue between Lorenzo and Jessica ("In such a night as this . . ."), he makes Lorenzo a pipe-puffing bore and has Jessica fall asleep. Thus he undercuts the romantic element of the play, the key to what Shaw called the work's "humanity and poetry." In a world ruled by money, Miller suggests, poetry and magic have no currency...
...wife of Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping baron and archrival of Aristotle Onassis; of an overdose of barbiturates; on her husband's privately owned islet of Spetsopoula, 56 miles southwest of Athens. In a game of musical marital chairs, Stavros divorced Eugenia in 1965 to marry Charlotte Ford, who bore him a daughter six months later. They were divorced within 15 months, after which Niarchos found his way back to Eugenia, said a friend, like "one of his own tankers drifting back to home port after a transatlantic junket...
Richard Nixon's speech on the widening Indochinese war bore some remarkable -and haunting-similarities to speeches that the public has heard before. The earlier words are those of his predecessor, Lyndon Johnson. Samples...
Omission. Johnson's treatment of Mrs. Kennedy was duly courteous, though Jackie never bore much affection for the big, earthy Texan. He described her appearance after the assassination as "a tragic thing to observe. Here was this delicate, beautiful lady, always elegant, always fastidious. And what that morning was a beautiful, unspoiled, nicely pressed pink garment that was the last word in fashion and style and looks . . . and she still had the same garment on, but it was streaked and caked and soiled throughout with her husband's blood...
...these days, as it does almost everyone else, is rock-a far cry from the free-blowing kind of blues on which Woody's first band, formed in the late 1930s, pegged its fortunes. His next band (1944-47), the first and best of a long succession that bore the name Herd, was a hard-driving ensemble with a precision-drilled brass attack, modulated by a sophisticated Ellingtonian touch. The first Herd's explosive rendition of such numbers as Apple Honey and Northwest Passage appealed to just about everybody-including Igor Stravinsky, who wrote the Ebony Concerto...