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...Stella Ladi, associate professor at Panteion University in Athens and professor at London’s Queen Mary University, said it was a “misperception that their introduction will undermine and deprive public ones...
...The move follows strenuous calls by leader Mary Lou McDonald at the party’s conference this weekend for the Israeli ambassador to Ireland to be expelled....
...‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, Playhouse (Arts Centre Melbourne) A striking production of the Tennessee Williams masterpiece, with Nikki Shiels as Blanche DuBois, the troubled Southern belle with a dark secret...
...Like Blanche DuBois and Frances Farmer.” A similar tension can be found in her photographs....
...Blanche DuBois or absentee householder; who’s fretting? Let’s ask instead how she started as an MGM star. The room lap-dissolves into the late 1940s and the voice perks up....
...A good example is Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, published in 1826 and widely considered to be the first true work of apocalyptic science fiction, in which civilisation is wiped out by a plague....
...Until September 7, metmuseum.org Photograph: Hughes Dubois...
...Woody Allen in A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy (1982) had a scene of madcap dementia in which he “became” Blanche DuBois....
...(His Mary, Queen of Scots boasted a score by Thea Musgrave.) Nothing of his work, such being the nature of Scottish Ballet’s ingratitude and uncertain taste, remains in repertory....
...New YorkArmida Mary Zimmerman’s production of Rossini’s rarely performed opera opens tonight at the Met....
...DuBois, “America’s one gift to beauty [and] slavery’s one redemption, distilled from the dross of its dung” gave Cooke the initial outlet for his precious instrument....
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