Word: coin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hollywood films. In three 1965 movies you'll see a dapper gent figure-skating around a woman in her bedroom (the Czech-East German The Wayward Wife), a DayGlo-bright production number in a spa (Woman on the Rails, Czechoslovakia), a Bulgarian Connie Francis in full taunt (The Antique Coin). But the syncopated clock was ticking; Commusicals fizzled out, as Hollywood song shows did, in the early...
...supporters are quick to point out that the flip side of the coin is that his product is quintessentially black, and many say his greatest success is transmitting this culture to the larger world...
...Blaine's best magic trick may be his own career. By updating corny card and coin feints and levitation stunts with post-grunge chic, he has leapfrogged from hustling sharpie to the star of his own sweeps-month network special, David Blaine: Street Magic (ABC, May 19, 8 p.m. E.T.). "It's a roll of the dice," admits ABC Entertainment president Jamie Tarses. "But David is very contemporary, of his generation, hip, cool. We think he can pull in the young, urban audience...
...very beginning of this production is a clever expression of how the play wants viewers to both recognize and share the pathos of the characters' unimportance. While everyone is still taking a seat and the lights are still on, the show begins with Rosencrantz tossing a coin and finding that it consistently turns up heads. There is no dialogue, other than Rosencrantz repeating "heads" every time he picks up the coin. Although this action will eventually introduce some of Stoppard's playfully theoretical elements, what's happening on stage doesn't yet seem important enough for the audience to stop...
Park is a leading scholar in the history of medieval and Renaissance science. Her works include Doctors and Medicine in Renaissance Florence and Wonders and the Order of Nature. "She can find a story in an old coin or engraving as well as in a traditional archive, says Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Phillips professor of early American history and women's studies. Park will bring several new courses to Harvard in Renaissance history as well as modern science and medicine...