Word: daggering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Macbeth is also endowed with a hypersensitive imagination. Colicos constantly reacts in little ways to the strange sounds that abound around Inverness Castle (this production has a highly active off-stage soundtrack). The dagger soliloquy comes after he dozes off on a bench; he starts to hallucinate in a half-awake state, and seems hardly to be aware of his own real dagger, which he draws but then drops on the floor. When he goes upstairs to murder Duncan, he carries his dagger behind his back. On returning, he holds two bloody daggers in one hand--again behind his back...
...decision as to whether one of the two appearances is the ghost of Duncan rather than of Banquo). The apparitions are hallucinatory and visible only to Macbeth. It makes no more sense to bring in a ghost visible to all the banqueters and to us than to lower a dagger on a string for the earlier soliloquy (and the true ghost appearances in Hamlet and Julius Caesar are in no wise analogous...
...more than a handful of low-income people. Without eminent domain and the resources of a government, the obstacles to building a new city are enormous. To acquire land for Columbia without driving prices to the sky, for example, developers had to use all kinds of cloak-and-dagger techniques in making 169 separate purchases...
...baby, you gotta go"), left school and went on a tour of France, where critics crowned her "Paris' Black Pearl." Rhapsodized Jean Monteaux in Arts: "The play of this voice makes you think sometimes of an eel, of a storm, of a cradle, a knot of seaweed, a dagger. It is not a voice so much as an organ. You could write fugues for Warwick's voice...
...hail to TIME for attempting to re-establish the line between the poet and the square. But-is this a dagger which I see before me? Your artist's rendering of the poet looks very like a camel. Or like a whale. Or like Prufrock peering from a nimbostratus. Lowell is an excellent poet within the confines of his own self-lacerations. But the poet who deserves (in sunlight) to grace your cover is James Dickey, who, far from measuring out his life with coffee spoons, writes with joy and imagination and vitality about the sanguine world in which...