Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After so unsatisfactory a campaign, someone has to be at fault. Why not the press? After all, as James David Barber, a political scientist at Duke University, argues: "Journalists are the new kingmakers." Far from being puffed up at the honor, journalists are apt to reply: "Who, me? Thanks but no thanks." They, too, are wondering, like card players with a poor hand, "Who dealt this mess...
With his move from the Southland to the concrete terrain of Manhattan, Waits is looking to infuse some new blood into his life. No more 2 A.M. cruises down Santa Monica Blvd. with his pals. No more late breakfasts at Duke's. Tom Waits will be jostling with commuters on the crosstown bus or riding the subway late at night, exploring the dark underbelly of another kind of town...
...most transparent: a sketchy framework of undeveloped plot hangs at both ends of the play as an excuse to get the characters into the forest of Arden, where the complex interplay of nearallegorical characters assumes the aspect, at times, of a philosophical inquiry. A banished duke holds court over a pastoral golden age in the forest; his men pluck the lute, sing, and sleep while Jaques the melancholiac provides counterpoint to their contentment. Into their hermetically enchanted realm bound a pair of lovers, whose parabolic approaches give Shakespeare an excuse to examine the nature of obligation and fidelity in love...
...orderly, ceremonious court and a rustically relaxed forest, Belgrader gives neither. His court is a Louis XIV anachronism, the women nearly immobile in skirts like giant hat-boxes, the men waving white kerchiefs and gloves to punctuate their mincing. Arden is a small businessman's Hawaii vacation-dream; the Duke and his entourage wear leis and grass skirts like conventioneers just off the plane...
Amusements were much in demand, and desperate hosts tried virtually everything to protect their guests from boredom. The Duke of Devonshire installed a private theater at Chatsworth, and Lord Pembroke held an annual cricket week at Wilton. The Duke of Westminster was famous for his shoots. At half past ten, recalled one visitor, the Duke would approach the gentlemen in the crowd and inquire, "Care to come out and see if we can pick up a pheasant or two?" By lunchtime a thousand dead birds littered the grounds. "The Duke never shot after lunch," noted one visitor, "but while...