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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...directing. His project is to reinstate Shakespeare, who hired street actors to perform his plays, as a playwright for the common people. He declares to Bobo at the onset of his project, “Bobo, I’m going to stage the play in which the Bard taught us to overcome social convention, in which he showed us that the power of love cannot be thwarted by society’s rules.” Cagnotto interprets the play in a ridiculously sexual and homosexual context where the central relationship is that between Romeo and Mercutio. With this...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns | Title: All Ends Well in ‘Tragedee’ | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

Born in Enid, Okla., Dalton was married and divorced twice before the age of 21. It was not long until she made her way to Greenwich Village at a time when residence all but required one to be a bard or a banjo player. She was beautiful, too. “Karen was tall, willowy, had straight black hair, was long-waisted and slender, what we all wanted to look like,” Lacy J. Dalton, a self-described “hard-luck” chanteuse and former fellow West Villager, has said. She could certainly sing...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Life and Legacy of a Forgotten Folk Singer | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...contemplation. “I found a piece of plywood with enormously huge knots, and I thought they were really funny,” she says. “I thought they looked like huge breasts and huge cartoon eyes.” Davis, who teaches at both Bard College and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, moved forward with the humorous sculpture by contemplating how one contextualizes imagery. “Whatever frame you use changes the image,” she says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visiting Faculty Exhibit Art | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...Harry is living happily ever after, except for a few postscripts (like The Tales of Beedle the Bard, due out in December), and Scholastic is getting ready for its first major post-Harry Potter launch, a new series called The 39 Clues. But things will work a little differently this time. The rules in the magical land of young-adult publishing have changed. The 39 Clues isn't the second coming of Harry Potter. There won't be one. Harry Potter and the Death of the Author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 39 Clues: The Next Harry Potter? | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

Deadly Devices C.R. Bard Inc., one of the world's largest medical devicemakers, pleaded guilty last week to federal charges of selling untested heart catheters. The firm will pay $61 million in criminal fines and federal civil damages. The devices killed at least one person and caused 22 others to have emergency surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWS DIGEST OCTOBER 10-16 | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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