Word: interpretative
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...Hamlet is dead...but his corporation lives on. As one of many as of late who has expressed the desire to re-interpret Shakespeare, director Michael Almereyda has seen fit to take the age-old tale of the Prince of Denmark and set it in late '90s New York City. While we've seen a narcissistic Hamlet, a visceral Hamlet and a verbose Hamlet, now we have the young prince in a world of laptops and limousines, cellular phones and c-notes, Mercedes and martinis. Elsinore is an apartment building, Denmark is a financial concern, Fortinbras attempts a hostile takeover...
...plays like Waiting for Lefty or Not One Flea Spare. It is the nature of theater and not the content of the play itself that is important. Theater of any type teaches us-sometimes it teaches us how to watch and learn from and understand people, sometimes how to interpret their actions and see past their language, sometimes how to love villains and how to hate heroes. But always it teaches us how to observe and how to learn from observation. And the more we learn how to do that, the less we approach the world with prejudice and preconception...
...your dog should be on better speaking terms? Well, you can get there with a little practice. In his new book, How to Speak Dog, Stanley Coren claims that a dog has the intellect and vocabulary of a two-year-old child--but humans must learn to interpret their canine's nonverbal noises, tail wags and other body language. A sample: for dogs, a yawn is not a sign of fatigue but of anxiety. And each of those wags can tell a variety of stories, depending on posture and pace. More about Coren's theories can be found at ANIMALNEWS.COM...
...press built you up then tore you down. Are you past all that now? Can you act freely without wondering how the media will interpret...
...publications. Should a university make no guarantee whatsoever of fair process in its student handbook, as the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts has argued, students might be inclined to go elsewhere; to renege on procedural guarantees infringes on basic notions of fairness. The courts should feel no reluctance to interpret (albeit generously) the terms of university regulations and serve as the last line of defense for students who have been denied the protections of established rules...