Word: acted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Madan said that hearing the stories of studentactivists in Burma also moved her to act...
...encore was almost better than the main act, giving the audience both "La Grippe," a bizarre fusion between blues, jazz and funk about the influenza pandemic of 1918 and an extremely extended rendition of "I've Found a New Baby," a 1919 song in which every band member was given a chance to perform a solo. Drummer Chris Phillips juggled his sticks and then oranges handed to him by the band, all the while continuing to play; bassist Stu Cole played between his legs as Mathus and Whalen handed out the beads they'd been wearing to the audience...
...experience of listening to Seamus Heaney talk about his mastery of the balancing act that is poetry--maneuvering between the private and the public, past and present, political and personal--is matched only by listening to him read his poetry that so wonderfully orchestrates these various forces. At every appearance Heaney read some portion of his work, be it excerpts from or complete versions of poems, portions of his translation of Beowulf or an impromptu reading of probably his most famous poem, "Digging," meeting with thunderous applause. Perhaps Irish consul general Conor O'Riordan said it best when he said...
Howells' best is definitely saved for last. In order to play Hamlet backwards, forwards, and backwards and forwards again even faster, she takes more minor roles in the first act, saving up for the emotional drain of playing the Prince. When the time comes, she is ready. Her Hamlet is worthy of the real RSC, and is thus the perfect target for the ravages of the ridiculous minor characters. Shakespeare frequently exploited the humor in those who take themselves too seriously, and Howells had the difficult role of doing just this throughout the play...
...feminist movement is sending a "mixedmessage," Whitman added. "Women across the countryno longer can count on sisterly solidarity, andmen are thinking, `If I do good things for women,it doesn't matter how I act to individuals,'" shesaid...