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...make an immediate impact.”It probably doesn’t hurt knowing that he could be taking shooting drills on American goalkeeping legend Kasey Keller or participating in position drills alongside Swedish great Freddie Ljungberg. The two international stars have played for English giants Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, respectively, and each player has captained his country.“It’s very cool to wear the same uniform and share a locker room with guys like that,” Fucito says. “The whole experience for me has been amazing...
...call spirits from the vasty deep," boasts Glendower in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, to which Hotspur sensibly replies, "Why, so can I, or so can any man: But will they come when you do call for them?" Not always, certainly. But often enough to endow American art with the means of expressing something that lies deep under the traditional materialism of American life...
...stage career -- in the mid-'40s, when he and Ralph Richardson led the Old Vic company through triumphal seasons in London and New York City -- Olivier could spread out the banquet of those contradictions in a single evening. In Henry IV, Part I, he was the stuttering, heroic Hotspur; in Part II, the cagey-senile Justice Shallow. The curtain would fall on his Oedipus, with its searing scream of self-revelation; after intermission he would mince on as Mr. Puff, the giddy paragraphist of Sheridan's The Critic. It was all part of a 70-year striptease in which this...
...Hotspur: Why so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call them...
...intensity of her needs that ensures her greatness as a literary character, a point that elicits wholehearted sympathy from Vargas Llosa, who as an outspoken young writer and Peruvian hotspur once caused quite a stir in conservative Lima. "It is not only the fact that Emma is capable of defying her milieu," he writes, "but also the causes of her defiance that force me to admire that elusive little nobody. These causes are very simple and stem from something that she and I share intimately: our incurable * materialism, our greater predilection for the pleasures of the body than for those...