Word: bard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...missiles failed to prevent their deployment this fall. The Greens, however, are quick to took on the bright side of things. "It's not a failure. It is clear that the government acted against the majority of the people, now there is a spirit of resignation," said Dr. Sabine Bard, a Green and member of the Bundestag, on a recent visit to Cambridge. "But at the next national election, people will remember who stood for what," another member noted...
...attempt to demystify and de-mythify "the Bard" (a phrase that would never escape his lips unless they were twisted satirically), McKellen establishes two reference points between himself and Shakespeare. The first is that they were both helplessly smitten by the theater at tender ages. (He imagines a boyish Shake speare falling in behind a touring theatri cal company announcing its presence by parading down Stratford's main street; he recalls himself manipulating a cardboard Laurence Olivier and Jean Simmons in a toy-theater production of Hamlet.) The second is that both grew...
...from appearing in any advertisements masquerading as Jackie O. Quoting no less an authority than Shakespeare, Greenfield wrote: "Who steals my purse steals trash ... But he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed." But as the Bard also wrote, "The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief...
...Winter's Tale currently being mounted at the Agassiz Theatre, he probably would have suffered a massive heart attack after the first five minutes. But had Shakespeare survived the initial shock of director Paul Warner's very twentieth-century interpretation of his next to last play, the bard would have realized he was watching a very creative mind at work...
...characters, Pericles. Thaisa and Marina--with a passel of debauched and wicked malefactors. Goodness prevails in a series of circumstances and coincidences which quickly becomes a caricature of itself," this day, the play remains of questionable authorship, though a number of well-turned and colorful phrases reveal the Elizabethan Bard. Indeed, language, infages, themes and parallels occasionally redeem the play, but mostly it just sloughs along. Uncut, the three-and-a-half-hour romance is an ambitious undertaking--just to watch...