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SURVIVORS.(Theater Review)
Tennessee Williams's masterpiece "A Streetcar Named Desire" (being revived in a Roundabout Theatre production at Studio 54) opened in 1947; the play, as Arthur Miller said, planted "the flag of beauty on the shores of commercial theatre." Among its many narrative sensations was the first sighting on the American stage of a sexual male--the priapic palooka Stanley Kowalski--and of sexuality as the engine of life. George Jean Nathan, one of the production's few dissenters, dubbed Williams a "genital man." "The play might well have been titled 'The Glans Menagerie,' " he wrote. As usual, Nathan was wrong. "The Glass Menagerie" (1945) looked backward to the thirties and to ...
- Miriam MAKEBA (vocals) - AFS. Her group is composed of : Stella ZULU (vocals)...
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Guy Le Querrec January 1, 1989 700+ words
...AFS. Her group is composed of : Stella ZULU (vocals) Felicia MARION (vocals) Stanley TODD (guitar) Sol RAZAFINDRAKOTO...AFS. Her group is composed of : Stella ZULU (vocals) Felicia MARION (vocals) Stanley TODD (guitar) Sol RAZAFINDRAKOTO...
- Lower abv Stella hailed as wife--and life--saver.
- Magazine article from: Grocer July 11, 2009 700+ words
...name sticks. And spreads. Stella's unfortunate tag--deriving...2% abv or, possibly, from Stanley Kowalski (husband of Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire...Artois have fizzled out. Enter Stella Artois 4%, a beer that cynics...
- This Stella is a fella; the Stanleys are yellers: Contestants in `Streetcar'...
- Newspaper article from: Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH) January 28, 2006 700+ words
...as the original Stanley in A Streetcar Named...brains out. These Stanley wannabes howled...and slurred their "Stellas." Each played up to an onstage Stella who was anything but...curly long wig as Stella. Underneath it all...
- Smolen, Eugene A.
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel July 30, 2009 700+ words
...Hospice, in LaSalle, IL. Born March 28, 1920, to Stanley and Stella (Wroblewski) Smolen, in Cudahy, WI. He married...Margaret of Salem, WI. Predeceased by his parents Stanley (Stella) Smolen, sister Lorraine (Robert) Mathis of Indiana...
- Stella's Frontiers of Astonishment; In N.Y., a Partial Retrospective of the...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Paul Richard October 14, 1987 700+ words
...The man is rightly named. Stella is a star. It's Stella's bigness that amazes, the...stopped you in your tracks. Stanley Kubrick might have been thinking...s it, the end of painting. Stella had painted himself into a corner...
- Street car named Desire.
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada June 22, 1999 700+ words
...atmosphere, from the oppressive, sultry heat of New Orleans to the gloom of the claustrophobic apartment in which Stanley, Stella and Blanche are crowded. But perhaps Previn's greatest strengths lie in his ability to set English text in a natural...
- A streetcar Named Desire.
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Mermelstein, David December 1, 1998 700+ words
...Instead of developing a signature sound that includes motifs for the quartet at the heart of this opera (Blanche, Stanley, Stella, and Mitch), Previn blends brass, strings, and winds into a rambling, indistinct underscore. Plaintive strains...
- Popular Polish Names
- Newspaper article from: Polish-American Journal Robert Strybel August 1, 1996 700+ words
...foreign-sounding" names and preferred to pass themselves off as Chester, Bernice, Mitchell, Harriet, Jesse, Stanley, Stella and Bill respectively. Nowadays, across Polish America, many third- and fourth-generation Polish Americans...
