Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...near, and so I face the final curtain. My friend. I'll say it clear, I'll state my case of which I am certain...
Also, Bishop set up the theater so that the audience had to walk through an exhibition of art about women, through the curtain, across the stage, and up to the seats. After entering the theater via the stage, the audience can hardly forget that it is observing a play...
...Under Beth Stewart's presidency, individual representatives have not felt empowered to bring up their constituents' views," Stone says. "We want to focus on the little things immediately...[but] we do need to bring down the iron curtain on political issues...
Only in one masterful sequence at the center of the film, when Kapur pulls back the curtain on Elizabeth, rehearsing a momentous address to the bishops of England, does the Queen herself take center stage as a feminist vision of powerful womanhood--using intelligence, humor and finesse to spellbind her subjects with her own authority. For once, the film emerges from the shadow of its most prominent artistic antecedent: The Godfather. In this sequence, we watch as Elizabeth rewrites history, beginning her speech halting and uncertain, and slowly coming into her own as a power broker. This, finally...
...attention to the Israeli behind the curtain. Yasser Arafat opened the new Gaza International Airport Tuesday in a fanfare of publicity, declaring it an important milestone on the road to Palestinian statehood. "But once the emotion has died down and Palestinians realize the airport is another Israeli checkpoint, the response will be different," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad...