Word: desdemonas
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...subtlest and most infuriating affront is sexual. He loves a white girl, who lives and travels with him as his common-law wife. Jane Alexander invests this role with the tenderness, passion and loyalty of a star-crossed Desdemona. When Jefferson is convicted of a Mann Act charge, he jumps bail and flees to Europe. A hounded exile, he drifts from country to country, reaching a kind of symbolic degradation when he shuffles through the role of Uncle Tom in a Budapest cafe and is booed. Still, he rejects a standing offer to throw the championship fight in return...
Born. To Maggie Smith, 32, ebullient, rusty-haired member of London's National Theater Company (Desdemona to Sir Laurence Olivier's Othello) and film actress (The V.I.P.s), and Fellow Company Actor Robert Stephens, 36, versatile screen performer (Morgan!): their first child, a 7½lb. boy named Christopher, whose premature arrival (by caesarean section) occasioned the announcement that the couple was married (she for the first time, he for the second) secretly last month; in London...
...Cleopatra dress -a snowfall of shimmering spangles around bosom and hips joined by sheer, flesh-color chiffon. But others, who felt uneasy about the quasi-nude fashions, decided to cheat. Newporter Minnie Gushing, tall and stately with cascading hair, wore a body stocking under her gold latticework Desdemona robe designed by Oscar de la Renta...
Under Director Stuart Burge, the supporting cast is pallid. Frank Finlay's Iago is a meager adversary in all respects. Maggie Smith plays a resolute and poignant Desdemona, though her open, clear-eyed virtue ought to vindicate itself as easily as Iago's obvious machinations condemn him. As Cassio, Derek Jacobi seems a snub-nosed, undergraduate type whom no lion among men could seriously consider a rival...
Exhilaration is a fleeting state. After hours of darkness, New Yorkers began to wonder of their city, as Othello did of doomed Desdemona...