Word: almost
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BRENDAN FRASER can play almost any role. Well, any role that finds a naif thrust into unknown territory. Will his new film, Blast from the Past, add to his repertoire...
...incensed Stratfordians, who form the vast mainstream. "The idea that you have to go to Oxford to be a great writer is snobbish," says Jonathan Bate, author of The Genius of Shakespeare. Bate points out that Shakespeare, as the son of a local merchant and town official, would almost certainly have attended the Stratford Free School. And Elizabethan grammar schools offered a formidable education in Latin, including oratory and letter writing in the style of characters from classical myth and history. Students also had to be able to expand and embellish on existing literary works, much as Shakespeare did with...
Simultaneously, Microsoft and Intel and to a lesser extent Dell and Cisco, the two other great NASDAQ performers, have become the new global brand names. "Intel Inside" is almost as recognizable in China and Eastern Europe these days as are Coke or McDonald...
...other drama written for the American stage. So when the play celebrates its 50th anniversary this week with a new Broadway production, it's not just an occasion for theatrical nostalgia but time for a question: Why does this depressing, sometimes overwritten, painfully familiar play still move us in almost every incarnation...
...husband and I have noted how different our children's afterschool time is from ours. In the good old days, when it was either watch another I Love Lucy rerun or do your homework, studying didn't look so bad. Today the competition for my children's attention is almost unending. With choices ranging from sports and music lessons to computers and, yes, the ever present I Love Lucy reruns, my children would disappoint me if they were eager to do their homework every day. But by keeping it all in perspective, I am optimistic that we shall make...