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...Among other things, we listened to Lana Del Rey’s Norman F***ing Rockwell!...
...The Mother of Us All was Susan B. Anthony, the leader of the fight for women’s suffrage in the United States....
...The fine soloists were Sierra and Susan Graham, but the massed music-making sounded slack and four-square, further undercut by the lack of a proper organ....
...The titular mother is the suffragette Susan B. Anthony. Gertrude Stein’s libretto is in her characteristic fractured surrealist prose-poetry, droll and sweet....
...Rech notes that there weren’t many women in the original show, something that is being rectified in her 2018 version with Rosenthal planning to add paintings by Maria Lassnig and Susan Rothenberg....
...The resulting work is at once timeless and grounded in its 1970s setting (carefully evoked by Susan Hilferty’s costumes and Derek McLane’s bile-hued set)....
...Even the phrase itself seems to summon a bygone era in which men and women squared off over the vacuum cleaner, arms crossed like fuming Norman Rockwell figures....
...Speaking after 12 hours of inconclusive talks between the main trading nations, Keith Rockwell, World Trade Organisation spokesman, said: “The situation is very tense, things are finely balanced and the...
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