Word: macbeths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...height (5 ft., 6 in., shoes included) is ultimately irrelevant. Pryce says this is the first time in his career he has ever played a living person. However, he hastens to point out, "I have played characters like him before." And who might they be? "Richard III," Pryce responds. "Macbeth...
Last spring, the society sponsored a production of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," acted and staged entirely by Kirkland residents with varying degrees of acting experience...
...left to Bill Clinton to stir up the cauldron of Lady Macbeth controversy about his wife's role. The President-elect volunteered at a press conference last Monday that his wife "talked a lot and knew more about some things than we did" at a dinner for the Democratic leadership in Little Rock. (House Speaker Tom Foley and Senate majority leader George Mitchell did not respond when asked later if that was true...
...while some compared her to Lady Macbeth, I'd liken her to another stage character--my favorite female literary creation, none other than Sophocles' Antigone...
...worry most about the influence they cannot see -- which helps explain the uproar when their worst suspicions are confirmed by what they do see. Some commentators went off like a cheap car alarm when Rosalynn Carter's fingers grazed the doorknob of the Cabinet room. Columnists conjured up Lady Macbeth when Nancy Reagan introduced policy-by- horoscope, or when she nudged her husband at a press conference on the hostages and urgently whispered, "Tell them you're doing the best...