Word: inquisitor
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...reason for the ban, a familiarity with bedrock religion would be handy-that and oldtime values. And to understand its effect is to appreciate paradox. The contradiction, in the words of Circuit Court Judge J. Edward Tease, has been "institutionalized bootlegging." Too, as Architect Gerald Wade was instructing an inquisitor the other day, "Your question is phrased wrong. The question isn't how long the county has been dry, but, rather, whether it's ever been dry." One must call upon a distant memory to catch the root of this observance, and that would be the memory...
This emotional modernization is mirrored by an updating in the play's setting. Refreshingly. Brown has shunned an aggressive Peter Sellars-brand recasting of the entire operetts--the gondoliers who become kings are not Haitian boat-people, and the local duke, duchess and grand inquisitor are not the Trilateral Commission...
...chorus sports smart 1980s army jackets and leather sneakers, and paddles in and out riding blue skateboards. When the gondoliers leave Venice to become kings of Barataria, they puff themselves up a bit with hats and golf-clubs. Most amusing of all, when Don Alhambra, the normally buffoonish grand inquisitor, finds himself in moments of stress, he takes a snort from a small black snuff box he carries; the box occasionally tips over when someone bumps into the Don, and the powder that spills out is unmistakeably white...
...carrying the kidnapers' invitation to Senzani, who once studied at the University of California in Berkeley and speaks English, to assist in future interrogations of Dozier. In previous kidnapings-of Rome Magistrate Giovanni D'Urso and Christian Democratic Politician Ciro Cirillo-Senzani had served as the grand inquisitor...
Dinner at Eddie's inevitably begins with the sound of a cork popping from a bottle of Asti Spumante. "We call it lemonade," he remarks with a grin. As he pours the spirits so Bernays, begins his outpouring of questions. He plays at once the inquisitor and the humorist, drawing people out of their shells of self-consciousness to see what they are made of Subtly, he demands the intimacy of everyone whom he encounters. The topic of discussion turns to Harvard. "The university," lectures Bernays, "is suffering from a cultural time lag of about four hundred years, since...