Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...courtroom last Friday to face charges of violating a new Michigan law that makes assisting suicides a crime. He went limp rather than post bond and had to be dragged out by the arms, his legs scraping the floor. "I won't eat," he vowed. Like a one-man Greek chorus, his lawyer intoned, "We are now beginning the death watch...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Theophilos" at 7 p.m. A poeticvisualization of the life and work of the famousGreek folk painter Theophilos Jadjimichael, awandering artist who searched all the time for thequintessence of the modern Greek spirit...
...Second Troy, by Karen Hartman, author of Reproducing Georgia, takes a well-known Greek myth and transforms it into interesting social commentary, using the dialogue between two women to propel a complex and action-filled tale...
...learnsthe art of the furrier. The old emigrant falls inlove with the unknown young girl appearing on apost card sent to llias from Greece. They bothlong to return home-for different reasons-whilecontinuing to live together in Paris, developing anew relationship which turns into a modern versionof an ancient Greek tragedy. The search forFelicity gradually leads to crime and catastrophe,reflecting the inhuman aspect of the politicalstruggle in Greece...
...audience, and the race to keep up does get tiresome towards the latter half of the second act. Fortunately however, Levin, keen to an audience's limited capacity to watch and process a bullet-paced thriller, allows for extensive monologues in which characters, like members of a Greek chorus, meticulously recall events twist for twist...