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Here she comes again, looking as impersonally famous as an Andy Warhol portrait: the same white strapless dress, the sleek hair still as bright as a naked light bulb, the bare arms lifted into a U shape, as if she were some imperial umpire.
Eva Perón, the wife of the Argentine president Juan Perón and the prototype of the mid-20th-century power blonde, has returned to London in a warmly received revival of Evita, the 1978 musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, that transforms her into an ideal heroine for 2006. That is, for the record, not meant to be a compliment.
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