Word: kingdomful
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...Then you perceive the body of our kingdom/How foul it is, what rank diseases grow,/And with what danger, near the heart of it." The kingdom is sick. Violence, like wildfire, dances across the landscape. People die, choked by ringing hands of greed and indifference. Pain, suffering and death loom. The younger generation threatens to run away, choosing irresponsibility over the conformist greediness of the establishment. The kingdom is indeed sick, and no one seems willing nor able to save it. Sound familiar...
...especially urge all seniors to go see this production. As we approach graduation, we face Prince Hal's challenge. Do we take the throne of this diseased kingdom? Do we even want it? And if we do, will we hold tight our childhood dreams, those dreams formerly untainted by considerations of salary, power and self advancement? Or will we slip mindlessly into the grips of the status quo? Can we rise to the occasion of these plagued years? Should we have...
...Marshall Scholarships were established bythe British government to express their gratitudefor the Marshall Plan. The program bringsintellectually distinguished American students tostudy in the United Kingdom...
...family's Christmas tree grows to alarming proportions; huge mice scuttle threateningly around her until they are conquered by a newly potent nutcracker (Culkin), who is then transformed into an angelic, pink-suited prince. Thereafter the dream becomes a cotton-candy fantasy as the prince escorts Marie to the Kingdom of the Sweets, where waves of dancers, led by the Sugarplum Fairy (Darci Kistler), perform in the children's honor. In a hilarious mock-grandiose conclusion, the pair depart, ascending to the snowy heavens in a reindeer-drawn sleigh...
...well as several parts of the PBS Dance in America series. He has shown that he can shoot his camera straight -- and in fairness it should be pointed out that at least he does not cut off the dancers' feet, a common Hollywood error. But in the long Kingdom of the Sweets sequence, the action is blurry. The Waltz of the Flowers, with its swift pace and swirling, swooping movements, almost falls apart. The choreographic patterns are unreadable, and even Nichols' brilliant dancing loses some of its definition...