Word: hamlets
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...picture the first time I met Bill Clinton, even though I was too young to remember it. It was a cool, crisp October day in 1978 in Danville, Arkansas, a small hamlet of 1,600 people in Yell County. The occasion was the Yell Country Fair, a veritable mecca for pols, both local and state...
Nice, no. Soulfully conflicted, surely. Neeson grew up Catholic in a small, rural hamlet in Northern Ireland. As a teenager he was torn between a passion for boxing and a love of theater. The world of Chekhov won out in the early '70s, when Neeson joined Belfast's repertory Lyric Players and then graduated to the renowned Abbey Theater in Dublin. There he first tackled drama that dealt with his country's fractious history--in his words, "a lot of Sean O'Casey." (The apolitical Neeson, however, still knew almost nothing about Collins when he came to the role...
...play George is supposed to be in keeps changing--from Private Lives to Hamlet to A Man for All Seasons--and George is frustrated by the fact that he doesn't know his lines or what is expected of him. At one moment he unexpectedly drops his pants, only to look down, surprised and confused, and say, "I didn't mean to do that." The more he grapples for the correct lines, the funnier the play becomes. Left alone on stage to deliver a Hamlet soliloquy, George runs through all the lines he has ever memorized, from the Pledge...
Rosenstraus is the longest and oldest resident in this hamlet of 50 people, an unincorporated settlement near the town of Hancock in western New York. She was born, raised and still lives in the same house...
...including Rosenstraus, seems to know the origin of the hamlet's name, but she speculates that the town's founders were from New England and named it after their alma mater...