Word: lording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...positive side, Branagh's stress on ensemble acting makes an interesting case for the play as a portrait of a whole society gone rotten rather than as a personal tragedy. His own portrayal of Edgar, the fugitive son of a mistrustful lord, comes as close as an actor can to making sense of the play's parallel set of antic mad scenes and willful disguises...
...Anaheim, Calif., where obstetrician Charles Wesley Turner Jr. used forceps to hasten Myra's debut. Moments after her birth at 15 seconds past midnight on Jan. 1, Turner hustled the 6-lb. 12-oz. baby to the Melodyland Christian Center 150 ft. away, where the nationally televised Praise the Lord program was being filmed. Turner may have hoped to display Myra as one of 1990's first babies. Alas, the lights and cameras had been turned off at midnight. Although Turner says the baby was in no danger from his Hollywood-style obstetrics, the California Board of Medical Quality Assurance...
Lady Antonia -- "the title has cachet," notes her agent Michael Shaw -- is dismissive of the personal attacks. "My father brought me up not to mind criticism or ridicule," she says. Lord Longford, a former Labour Cabinet minister, has endured both in his crusades against pornography and for prisoners' rights. The disparagement, in his family's view, stems from the fact that he, a nobleman who turned socialist, violated Britain's class order...
...served its special purposes. Richard Nixon welcomed Ceausescu's help in negotiating the first opening to China; under Ronald Reagan, the CIA sought Noriega's assistance in aiding Nicaragua's contras. But in Ceausescu's 24 years of iron rule and Noriega's six, both eventually proved once again Lord Acton's thesis that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely...
...heavy proof: an eight-CD box set of vintage Killer material, all recorded for Memphis' glorious Sun label between 1956 and 1963. In the set are 246 tunes, 30 performances issued for the first time, each and every one a blisterer, including even The Marines' Hymn and Dixie, for Lord's sake. Jerry Lee classics are included too, of course, sounding as full of brimstone as ever. While Elvis became the perpetrator and victim of his own melodrama, Jerry Lee pumped away at his piano, howling at the devil and pining for glory. Whatever ultimate judgment awaits...