Word: elizabethans
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...last time they went to the Eternal City, he was Antony and she was Cleopatra and the shocks from that courtship broke every seismograph in the empire. Now Elizabeth Taylor, 34, and Richard Burton, 40, are about to relive the tale in Elizabethan style. In Rome they will begin shooting The Taming of the Shrew, which will give Richard an opportunity to utter Petruchio's immortal line: "Why, there's a wench...
Working on a slanting Elizabethan-style stage, Carnovsky's Lear commands all stage movement, dominating the vertical and letting lesser figures play on a horizontal plane...
...cozy Elizabethan mansion called Sutton Place, in Surrey outside London, offered 72 rooms, eight manhunting Alsatian watchdogs, four judo experts and two poltergeists dating back to 1777. So on the whole, it should have been ideal for Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty, 73. Except for that beastly English winter climate. Even installing central heating and a warm-water swimming pool didn't take the chill off. At last Getty has left Sutton Place and moved into a furnished 14th century castle on the seacoast near Rome...
...British theater, in short, has blossomed into a new Elizabethan Age, the likes of which even Shakespeare would have marveled at. The remarkable thing is that a dozen years ago, it was not curtain calls for the stage but curtains-period...
...Christian eschatology which made the book so painful to Novelist Burgess that he suppressed it for so long. Yet he must have known that on the surface it was an amazingly successful first novel, showing his later power to move into the past with Nothing like the Sun, his Elizabethan tour de force, or the Orwellian future with The Clockwork Orange (TIME, Feb. 15, 1963). Burgess has said that he was surprised to find that Vision turned out to be a funny book. Perhaps this seriousness is the clue to his comic flair; the human world is a masque; both...