John Agard's priceless English Girl Eats her First Mango begins: "If I did tell she/ hold this gold/of sundizzy/ tonguelicking juicy/ mouthwater flow /ripe with love /from the tropics /she woulda tell me /trust you to be /melodramatic".
Keenly aware of her own limitations ("I was born too soon and started too late -- if I coulda been, I woulda been"), she refuses to take "no" for an answer.
"She never felt 'coulda, shoulda, woulda,' " said a close friend, who, like some others in attendance, requested not to be named out of respect for the solemnity of the day.
Intra's offering of slinky electro-pop opens with Shoulda Coulda Woulda, which Rose says she wrote with the Grammy award-winning producer M-Phazes in Bali, back in 2014.
Criticism is just, "Coulda, woulda, shoulda," a phrase she used once when asked if the 2012 death of ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, in Benghazi might have been avoided.
CNN.com, April 13thSenior moment "And you woulda thought, you know, that she'd robbed a bank the way they carried on about this.
In the second half of the evening, she appended "can't," to the words "coulda, woulda, shoulda" to describe a segment of male-identified Broadway classics that included "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'," (from "Oklahoma!"), "Trouble" (from "The Music Man") and, most challengingly, the "Soliloquy" from "Carousel".
As playwright, Anne Meara has just the right touch of cool in sending for Stella and her husband, Sid (whom Stella partnered on the Borscht Belt when she could have been playing Chekhov), to lighten up what woulda and coulda been, another variation on the what-if musings of us all.
Beyonce: If Bey's fifth album had dropped at the beginning of the year as rumored, I woulda been cool with another exploratory record where she culled from her influences and produced an artful, well-executed set of tracks devoid of a hit single.
Grousing has always come naturally to this scaldingly frank woman, but she's never made much of a song and dance about woulda, coulda, shoulda.
"Gosh I wish I woulda got his name because he deserves the recognition!!" she added.
