Word: bard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shakespeare has caught a few breaks at the movies lately. Romeo and Juliet and Richard III became vigorous films that did honor to both the Bard and the medium. Now Julie Taymor, the magician who on Broadway turned The Lion King menagerie into masked enchanters on stilts, takes Shakespeare's goriest play, Titus Andronicus, and makes it vivid, relevant and of elevating scariness...
...This is a place to vent," she says. Bard herself is a social worker who individually counsels parents and pregnant students on navigating medical and housing issues. She also leads a book group with a focus on stories relating to parenting...
...Rachel, whose two sons are enrolled in the First Steps day care, explains that sometimes Bard will have her come in to talk to women when they are thinking too idealistically...
...While mothers are the majority in the program, Bard notes that if the fathers are still in the school, they do significant outreach to get him to attend as well. While Rachel hadn't heard of the program before, Karen had. "I just knew about the program. It is part of the school," she says...
...mentoring program was added. It had a "goal-oriented purpose," says Bard. "It's become known that one-on-one mentoring with an older person is good for teens at risk." Karen's mentor, an area graduate student training to be a social worker, is the only person outside of school who really helps...