Word: iambics
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...like going back to basics again and again and again to figure out what makes us tick,” says Allyn Burrows, the current Artistic Director. “The mechanics of the writing are such that they tap into the human heartbeat. If you look at iambic pentameter, that’s the same sound that a human heart makes...
...whims of half-literate editors for a pathetic drip-drip-drip of income. Oh, for a regular paycheck and health care, so you wouldn't have to suck up to some jerk of an editor for the next mortgage payment. ("Yes, I see. You want it to be iambic pentameter with internal rhymes. I've never read an analysis of the political situation in Pakistan done that way before. What a good idea...
...last time I was in the Green Zone I heard the American spokesman, Dan Senor, articulate the goal of America's mission in Iraq. It was to establish "a free and democratic Iraq, at peace with itself and its neighbors." He said it with such iambic verve and confidence it could have been the subtitle of a best-seller on Iraqi history - in a parallel dimension...
...look is too often neutralized, made listless, by all the talk. There are many long dialogues, shot in Cyclopsian closeup. Trying to give the orations more heft, the actors shout them, often pausing after each sentence fragment - as Leonidas does in this iambic-pentameter invocation to his troops: "Eat hearty. For tonight. We dine, In hell...
...Claire Danes, respectively 21 and 16 when they filmed it in 1996, bring youth's melancholy fever to the fable. Luhrmann might be chided for pandering to the youth market, but forget that. His fireworks and camerabatics are an apt and bracing visual equivalent to Shakespeare's swooning iambic pentameter...