Word: inheritance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rogue like Falstaff, and the actor who plays him must make his deviousness seem right as well as log ical. To preserve his life and his position he must be more clever than other men: he is the son of a regicide and knows that the throne he will inherit has been made slippery by blood. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," cries his father. David Gwillim adroitly captures all Hal's contradictions; then, like a master potter, he molds them into that noble vessel, Henry...
...interview with TIME (see box), Mugabe also vowed not to disrupt the potentially prosperous capitalist economy he will inherit. Many local businessmen feel that the coming of peace and stable government could spark an unprecedented boom in Zimbabwe. With the country's main agricultural, mining and manufacturing industries freed from the shackles of the international sanctions imposed after the unilateral declaration of independence, economists expect a 3% rise in the gross domestic product this year and a 15% increase in exports...
...accept what you do? That's one of the things I like about Gardiner. Who the hell is he? Is he God? Is he sent by God? Is he a moron? Or what?" The point, for Sellers, is that Chance is one of the meek who are supposed to inherit the earth, and actually does just that by being his simple self. That is the trick Sellers has once again pulled off, keeping his own essential blankness intact behind his multitude of masks. This interpretation stands the intended meaning of Kosinski's fable on its ear. If Sellers' vision...
...died in 1950 at 78. Her last years were lonely and idle; she was dependent on drugs. Her closest friend remained Chanel, who desperately wanted to take over her crown, her legend. There was nothing to inherit. As Cocteau said of Misia: "Angels fly because they take themselves lightly." -Martha Duffy
...think the Marxists will inherit the revolution...