Word: duke
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...known as “Lorenzo the devil” in sixteenth-century Florence, the hedonistic favorite of the Duke Alessandro de Medici, his cousin and eventual assassin. Never predictable, mostly because he was perpetually drunk and always irreverent, he became a symbol of Florentine decadence, a worthy complement to the debauchery of Alessandro himself...
...principal kudos are due to the accomplished Scheib, whose ability to orchestrate multiple points of action and complicated shifts in blocking is well-nigh incredible. The play’s lengthy first scene, in which the duke and his comrades carouse and otherwise raise drunken hell, is absolutely enthralling, and Scheib’s consistent ability to maintain plenty of plausible onstage activity never flags. Not surprisingly, the play’s simplest scene—a dialogue which two characters conduct entirely on their knees on an otherwise empty stage—is the play’s weakest...
...trifle too slight at times, but in general she’s suitably complex and keeps her motivations obscure; she’s at her best when her character is at her most dissolute, and in a frenzied monologue as she prepares to assassinate her cousin, the duke. Adam G. Zalisk ’07, as Duke Alessandro himself, is dynamically sleazy, capricious and otherwise tyrannical. Ben D. Margo ’04 is extremely funny as the scheming Cardinal Salviati Cibo; his interactions with the Marchessa Ruccellai Cibo (Olga V. Fedorishcheva ’03) are a real highlight...
Pamela and Tommy Lee. Rodney King. Monica hugging Clinton. Videotapes can change a person’s life, and sometimes, history. Six guys at Duke found out for themselves...
...March 24, 2003, Bryan Chavez, now a junior at Duke University, approached friends Lam Nguyen and Vincent Mao, asking for assistance with a present for his then-girlfriend: an original music video to R. Kelly’s “Ignition (Remix).” “I hate to sound like something ripped out of a cheesy movie, but to be honest, all this hoopla started because of a girl,” says Chavez. Chavez rounded up Isaac Chan, John Fang, and Matt Vasievich, three other members of their crew, “6-Angst?...