Word: hamlets
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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...
...before Kenneth Branagh, Shakespeare's most doting and dogged courtier. Last year he played Iago to Laurence Fishburne's Othello and made a film, A Midwinter's Tale, about doing Hamlet in the provinces. This year he directs and stars in Hamlet--every word of Shakespeare's longest play--and has cast it with nearly every tony Brit actor (Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Kate Winslet, Rosemary Harris) but Emma Thompson. There are also some ringers: Robin Williams, Jack Lemmon and Billy Crystal. How do you say shtick in Elizabethan English...
Karadzic grew up a hill-country peasant boy in a society ripped apart by World War II and ferocious ethnic battles. His path to power was winding, complicated and unlikely. Born on June 19, 1945, in a tiny mountainside hamlet in the republic of Montenegro, he tended the farm animals and listened to traditional songs of brave battles against the Turks--learning nationalism by osmosis. His father was away during those early years, imprisoned for his wartime deeds as a member of the Chetniks, nationalist guerrillas who fought Nazi occupiers and Marshal Tito's communist partisans alike. After eight years...
...Thanh's projection crew would wrap up their daytime activities (foraging, digging, shooting at helicopters, etc.), descend underground and prepare for the evening's unspooling. Shortly thereafter, the audience, bubbling with anticipation, would arrive through the various connecting tunnels. On movie night, the entire population of a small hamlet would simply vanish underground. Up to 100 guerrillas and their families would cram into the dank screening chamber, taking pains not to sit on any poisonous vipers. (The moviegoers would try to ignore the rats, which were tolerated as an important V.C. food group...