Word: geoffrey
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Like Beauty and the Beast, Rock-a-Doodle borrows from an older literary source, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Edmond, a normal 1950s farm boy, drifts to sleep as his mother reads to him from an abridged version of the 13th century classic--undoubtedly a staple in barnyards across the nation. Understandably disoriented, the boy imagines himself into the body of a whiny kitten on the trail of modernized Chanticleer, Chaucer's rooster who makes the morning...
...whatever name, the investigation of middens is paying off with a host of new insights about the past. Using midden evidence of tree growth and distribution in the Mojave Desert, botanist W. Geoffrey Spaulding of the University of Washington determined that average desert temperatures during the height of the last Ice Age, about 18,000 years ago, were 6 degreesC (11 degrees F) colder than they are today...
John (Karl Saddlemeyer), Geoffrey (Richard Claflin) and Richard Lionheart (Adam Geyer), Henry's sons, provide both comic relief and a tragic element as they struggle for the throne. Saddlemeyer's fatuous complacence amuses the audience: "I'm Father's favorite--that's what counts." Claflin shows resentment at being the proverbial second son by spitting out every sarcastic line. Geyer shows the roots of Richard's Oedipal dilemma early in the play with his seemingly inexplicable hatred of his mother...
...delighted he has been confirmed," said Geoffrey Carliner '65, executive director of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge...
...Wantz received a lethal injection from a device similar to the one Adkins used. Miller, attended by her best friend, suffocated on carbon monoxide breathed through a mask. Neither one was a patient of Kevorkian's, and neither was terminally ill. The doctor was present throughout, said his lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger. "He provided the expertise. He provided the equipment...