Word: lear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liberal, and in doing so have won the public admiration of such New Right leaders as the Rev. Jerry Falwell and Phyllis Schlafly. But at this year's hearings, a new organization took on the Gablers: People for the American Way, a group founded by Television Producer Norman Lear and others to fight for First Amendment causes...
...breath." Coe has, however, changed the first adjective to "hot." The playwright's text tells us three things about the physical Hamlet--that he wears a beard, is 30 years old, and is fat (the role was written, after all, for the portly Richard Burbage, who first played Lear and Othello). It is still hard to get away from the 19th-century view: "Frailty, thy name is Hamlet...
Apart from the lustrous leading players, each major-minor role is played in stellar fashion. Stephen Moore makes of Bertram's boon companion, Parolles, a pompous, endearing rogue and braggart, a mini-Falstaff. The countess's clown (Geoffrey Hutchings) is Lear's fool, in wit though not in pathos. And Robert Eddison, as adviser to the King, is an elegant paradox, a wise Polonius...
...destiny of Thomas Hardy, a quiet little man whose principal excitement consisted of a bicycle ride followed by afternoon tea, to remind his fellow Victorians of an England darker and madder than anything in literature since Lear roamed the heath. The novelist made contemporary by film (Tess) and television (The Mayor of Casterbridge) was born in 1840 in a remote Dorset village. There, farmers, shepherds and artisans lived in a kind of Elizabethan time warp. But something dour and reductive in this son of a stone mason drove him back beyond morris dances to a pagan Britain haunted by ancient...
...grew more rambunctious in high school-"spraying my hair orange and getting thrown out of movie theaters"-and then, as an acting major at S.M.U., discovered classical drama. Reading Chekhov, Beckett, Shaw and King Lear, "the veils of the mind lifted," she says. "This was alive theater, someone bringing you in touch with a world you hadn't understood before." Once in Los Angeles, she began writing, "almost for pure sanity's sake. I'm like a child when I write, taking chances, never thinking in terms of logic or reviews. I just go with what...