Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rodhamize: vb -ized; -iz.ing To begin using your maiden name again as soon as you can get away with it. ("Dan, I'm rodhamizing. I'm going to be Marilyn Tucker Quayle...
...character. Sinister transformations abound in Alan Ackerman's portrait of Angelo. The upright moralist degenerates into nymphomaniac with an anguish that would evoke sympathy from the most severe judge. Breheny's wide eyed innocence at the start of the drama captures the virginal Isabella perfectly.. But her maiden- in- distress scenes later on lack the same dramatic conviction...
...only from the cult film Truly, Madly, Deeply. But on the boards in London, her range is astonishing, from the hoydenish Rosalind in As You Like It to the nihilistic Hedda Gabler, from the sexually awakening adolescent of Troilus and Cressida to the avenging victim of Death and the Maiden. She approximates the emotional clarity of Vanessa Redgrave, the assertive power of Judi Dench and the braying, spiteful fun of Maggie Smith -- and adds an androgynous beauty suited equally to Shakespeare's pants parts and to the contemporary feminist dialectics of the vehicle she has chosen for her U.S. stage...
...MAIDEN ADDRESS OF A NEW PRESIDENT TO A joint session of Congress, plus the Supreme Court, the Cabinet and the assembled diplomatic corps, is always one of the great ceremonial rituals of the republic. For Bill Clinton, it was also the opening of a campaign that promises to be every bit as hard fought as the one that ended last Nov. 3. And the outcome is in considerable doubt...
...despair and alienation are evident, but we are never given any reason for his whiny melancholia. It is a shame that the truly complex and harrowing aspects of life under a dictatorship are not examined in depth, for instance as in Ariel Dorfman's recent Death of the Maiden, instead of being subjected to this shallow evaluation and empty philosophizing. Instead of entering his world it is tempting to sit back and snicker...