Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standard for beauty goes back at least to the Shulamite maiden in Song of Solomon, and has included peasant and farm girls in every age. What is new is the emphasis on feminine strength for competition rather than service...
...state's public service commission. In the end, he is selling not so much a populist critique as a new, improved Bill Clinton who shares citizens' conventional values. It is telling, for instance, that his wife, Lawyer Hillary Rodham, who campaigned for him under her maiden name in 1980, now calls herself Mrs. Bill Clinton...
...with the philosopher Unamuno, they wander into a Spanish house of prostitution. The unsuspecting Quixote comments, "What a large staff of charming young women for so small a hotel." Ignorant of films, for example, he picks a pious-sounding title for his first viewing. X-rated grunts of A Maiden's Prayer, however, make him wonder: "They seemed to suffer such a lot. From the sounds they made." His more worldly companion advises, "They were pretending-this is acting, father-to have unbearable pleasure...
...first half of the play, Lisabeth Bartlett is an appealing Ophelia. But when the maiden loses her wits, she rises to heartrending heights, even thinking that Horatio is her beloved Hamlet. Her final two appearances are strong, violent, and above all inventive; they constitute, quite simply, the best Mad Ophelia I have ever seen...
Utaemon, of course, is a man, as are all the members of the troupe. Kabuki originated at the beginning of the 17th century, when a legendary shrine maiden named Okuni took her temple dances on the road for profit. When prostitutes began imitating Okuni, using their dancing to entice customers, a shogunate concerned about public morality banned women from the stage...