Word: boyhoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sufficient preparation for nay audience. There is also a strong strain of immaturity in Leontes. Kahn underlines this at the very start by showing us Leontes and Polixenes, an almost twin-like pair, stripped to the waist. Trying to recapture their stripped to the waist, trying to recapture their boyhood by arm wrestling. When Leontes, a bit later, sees Polixenes and Hermione innocuously holding hand, he starts chewing on the end of the tie-cord of his shirt in most unregal fashion. The men's friendship has not really matured properly during the years of their separation...
...dominant person in the first half of the play is King Leontes (Donald Madden), whose consuming jealousy leads him to accuse his visiting boyhood chum King Polixenes (Jack Ryland) of fathering the child his innocent wife Hermione (Maria Tucci) is about to bring into the world. Many people have complained that we are not given the full background and unfolding of Leontes's jealousy. But Shakespeare had already written Othello and there was no need for him to write that play all over again. His purpose here is quite different...
...drunk one night on the floor at Brooks' small house in the Hollywood hills. His host appeared before him dressed in a clown suit and whispered his name like a beckoning ghost. All in the Family's Rob Reiner remembers going for a drive with his boyhood pal and getting lost. Brooks went into a field and asked directions back to Los Angeles from a cow. "It ought to know," Brooks reasoned. "It lives around here...
Airstruck since boyhood, Wheeler chose flying over the family business; his father, John H. Wheeler, is president of Durham's prosperous Mechanics and Farmers Bank. Young Wheeler left North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University after a year, enrolled in flying school in Oklahoma, and got a commercial license at 19. At 22, he was hired by Piedmont as one of its youngest-and first black-pilots. A few years later, he took a leave of absence to start a charter flying service, partly with loans from the Small Business Administration. In August 1973 he drew up a schedule...
Friends from boyhood days back in St. Paul, Burger and Blackmun were quickly dubbed the court's Minnesota Twins. Blackmun's elevation to the court from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals was prompted by Burger's endorsement, and in Blackmun's first term the two differed on only 10% of the cases. They have never again been so much in accord, but a key split took place last July after the Chief wrote a draft of the court's unanimous opinion in U.S. v. Nixon, the explosive Executive privilege case. Most of the Justices...