Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Elizabeth S. Drogin '99, who took thepaper-based GRE in November of last year, said sheopted not to take the computer-adaptive testbecause she feels it ought to be morestandardized...
...also bought Russian government bonds andprofited personally from them, USAID alleged inthe letter. Hay's girlfriend, Elizabeth Hebert,has also been implicated in some reports...
...film Mrs. Brown. She has great swaths of Shakespeare locked in her brain: all of Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream and "probably most of Measure for Measure." So, for British actor Judi Dench, figuring out how to inhabit the role of Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love was no great mystery. "I thought she would be a commanding person," says Dench, who is herself a rather gracious person, and all of 5-ft. 1-in. tall. "I thought that if she just glanced at you, you'd be pretty dodgy inside...
That is the sound of Dench understatement in action. When she appears onscreen as the regal, nay, godlike, Elizabeth--with skeletally white skin, burning eyes and all aquiver in that bejeweled and befeathered costume like some sort of monstrous dragonfly--multiplex audiences have erupted in cheers. With barely 10 minutes onscreen, she makes her terrifyingly omniscient Elizabeth pivotal to the film, with players and viewers alike perched breathlessly on her every word. Dench attributes this potency not to her own skill but to the deference the film's other characters show her. John Madden, who directed her in both...
...Elizabeth Gleick...