Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...text of the Gospel). He also lost the hoped-for patronage of King Philip II, who disliked the fact that the artist's version of the Martyrdom of St. Maurice featured Maurice and his captains in the foreground rather languidly deciding to accept decapitation, while the actual decapitation of their troops was depicted in the background. Thus El Greco managed to exclude himself from two major sources of patronage in Spain, the church and the King...
...historical plot, the three main characters are Henry IV, his son Hal, and the Percy rebel known as Hotspur. At the time covered by the play, the actual King was only 36, and the other two were a generation apart at 16 and 39, respectively. Following the lead of one of his sources. Daniel's epic poem The Civil Wars and of course his own dramatic instinct. Shakespeare made the King older and the two rivals both about...
...critics who fear that medical texts and even National Geographic might be denied constitutional protection would be misreading the decision. And the use of teen-age models in suggestive ads would probably not be affected since there is no display of actual or simulated sex. Books like Show Me!, however, which uses explicit photographs to teach children about sex, might prompt prosecutions. In any event, the court made its point unflinchingly: it is willing to risk excesses of prosecution in order to stamp out the excesses of pornographers who exploit children...
Sexual liaisons and betrayals have turned the cast into a nest of hissing adders by Act II. They have to hiss; the setting is backstage during an actual performance of Nothing On at Weston-super-Mare. Eddington hands out three gifts: a bouquet of flowers, a bottle of whisky and an ax. These pass from hand to hand as swiftly as batons in a relay race. The action is a testimonial to Director Michael Blakemore's tornado pace and stopwatch timing...
...their stories make all too clear, the stars pass through the usual torments of childhood into sequences of adult problems-familial, professional, financial, emotional-that would not seem particularly exotic in most neighborhoods. While the stars' typical romantic lives are a matter of overheated legend, the actual events of their marital and extramarital flights are as trite as Everyperson's. Even Mae West managed to sound like an average lovesick adolescent when she attested to the uniqueness of the feeling between her and one of her numerous musclemen: "... a love so complete that it embraced not only...