Word: hamlet
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...leafy hamlet is crammed with history-book buildings and memorials, and it retains a free and easy atmosphere befitting the first place in Japan where Americans and Japanese were permitted to mingle after centuries of Japanese isolation...
...show intends to compare. But it's worth the back-and-forth legwork to see such superb pairings as Velázquez's 1636-37 full-length portrait of the actor Pablo de Valladolid with Manet's 1865-66 The Tragic Actor, Portrait of Rouvi?re in the role of Hamlet. With 40 paintings and drawings, Manet dominates the show, but the five Velázquez portraits alone are worth the long lines out front. Constable, the Choice of Lucian Freud at the Grand Palais is the first retrospective of the 19th century English landscape artist ever mounted in France...
...night’s second play, The Actor’s Nightmare, George Spelvin, played by Matthew J. Weinstock ’05, the semi-amnesiac lead actor thrown into plays ranging from Hamlet to Happy Days, gropes for lines and the zipper of his costar’s dress only to deliver perhaps the most painful soliloquy in stage history. The hilariously over-acted Horatio of Christian E. Lerch, and the dead-on deadpan delivery of Winnie by Jessica M. Gordon ’02-’03, highlighted the play’s comic effect...
...someone interested in quietly leading a terrorist's life, the rainy Indonesian hamlet of Cijeruk is a nice place to settle down. Nestled among lush, green paddies and swaying banana trees, an hour's drive outside the chaotic capital city of Jakarta, Cijeruk consists of a single two-lane road lined by a row of well-kept cottages. It's a good spot to hide from the authorities, if you have reason to be on the run--which may be how Omar al-Faruq, a 31-year-old drifter from Kuwait, ended up living there, in a concrete house that...
...down to Lamont. For you first-years, that’s right in the corner of the yard, in the shadow of Widener, on the other side from Weld. Right on the first floor you’ll find the Shakespeare section. Go wild. I recommend starting with Hamlet...