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After the initial scene between Horatio and Saxo, the audience sees Horatio conspire with the Player. He pays the Player to dress up as the ghost of Hamlet’s dead father and convince him of the treachery of Claudius, the new king of Denmark. Thus, Horatio becomes the driving force behind Hamlet’s suspicion and actions. Horatio soon reveals that he is the bastard son of Gertrude, and is jealous of his half-brother’s position of power and favor in the family. His ultimate goal is to see Hamlet into the throne...
...mess of smiling, politely frantic people, all trying to make sure they were included in the magic that was about to take place inside the hall. Magic it was. Five women and a sign language interpreter came dancing onto the stage, decked out in bright colours and African dress, and immediately the audience was spellbound by Sweet Honey in the Rock. The sight of the black female a cappella singers dancing beneath the statues of the dead naked white men from long ago that decorate the hall highlighted the power and immediacy of Sweet Honey. When Ysaye Barnwell used...
...with great wealth and prowess, so the Chinese side of my family in Los Angeles numbers close to 400, with only a handful that look like me. It's been 130 years since my great-great-grandfather left China, and we've become educated, changed our way of dress and lost our Cantonese. But there's a deep core that connects to our peasant ancestors...
...step farther away from the inevitable, that makes us to appear—however irrational that belief might be—to have that much more time left. Modern society, for all of its benefits, can do little more to assuage an age-old fear of death than to dress it up in cosmetics and collagen...
Where there's a yoga blitz, there must be yoga biz. To dress for a class, you need only some old, loose-fitting clothes--and since you perform barefoot, no fancy footwear. Yet Nike and J.Crew have developed exercise apparel, as has Turlington. For those who prefer stay-at-home yoga, the video-store racks groan with hot, moving tapes. The Living Yoga series of instructional videos taught by Yee and Patricia Walden occupies five of the top eight slots on Amazon's VHS best-seller list. "Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff...