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...nominate Jane Fonda for Woman of the Year. Her cinematic tours de force Coming Home and The China Syndrome have firmly established her as America's premier social critic, political activist and actress...
...most famous Nativity anecdotes were gathered together in the 13th century by Jacobus de Voragine in The Golden Legend, a compilation of saint stories that became a medieval bestseller. Among other things, Father Jacobus reports that the water of a Roman spring turned to oil on the day Christ was born. But the most touching Nativity tales turned up in 14th century English mystery plays. In the York Cycle, a medieval playwright gives Mary rhymed lines that brilliantly extend the spirit and simplicity of Matthew and Luke: Now in my soul great joy have I am all clad in comfort...
...However, there is a regal and Continental tang to the best of Scottish food, traceable to the nation's French connection, the "Auld Alliance" that began with the marriage of Scotland's King James V to Mary of Guise-Lorraine in 1538. Like a fogbound Catherine de Medicis, she arrived at Holyrood with chefs, recipes, wines, liqueurs, desserts and other Gallic trappings then unknown to the Gaels...
This is the first play by Kentuckian Marsha Norman but it is worth a trip to the Theater de Lys on Christopher St. to see how she has combined these lives into one soul. Dale Soules plays Arlene, a wiry woman locking out her past, anxious to deal with the daily pain of life in the real world without resorting to crime, without ugly language, without her old self--Arlie. Simultaneously, Julie Nesbitt carries on as Arlie, Arlene's violent past personified in this small but gutsy, foul-mouthed girl who hates authority and only loves for cash...
...command of Shakespeare's language is a rarity. He rules not only the language but the space around him. When he says "stars," the stars twinkle in the ceiling of the Adams House dining hall. Clemenson's acting has no gimmicks and no cliches--his performance is a tour de force of sheer talent and intelligence...