Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convinces him that despite her old age (47), she is still as pretty as other girls. He rejects her when he sees the more attractive young daughters of Major General Stanley (George Torbay, imported from the New England Conservatory of Music). Definer's sweet tenor voice moves the maidens hearts until he pleads, "Is there not one maiden here whose homely face and bad complexion/Have caused all hope to disappear of ever winning man's affection...
Maybe the college professors think Shakespeare produced only 37 plays, but this off-Broadway lark is the Bard's long-lost science-fiction rock musical. Small of scale and free of spirit, it features the obligatory mad monster, fair maiden, evil scientist and heroic space pilot. Sci-fi junkies will recognize the plot from the 1956 MGM flick Forbidden Planet, which the more literary-minded in turn saw as an amalgam of Shakespeare's The Tempest and dime-store Freud. (The killer demons were escapees from the id of a man who, like most sci-fi antiheroes, tried to play...
They had agreed--up until a few years ago, when they say they worked out their differences--to a so-called "open" relationship. During Clinton's first term in office, Hillary used her maiden name. Only after it became a political liability for Bill--open marriages and women's liberation don't fly in Smack-over, Ark.--did she become Mrs. William J. Clinton...
...cookbooks to soap wrappers. In the first hour of My Father's Glory -- the most luminous part of either film, or of any film since charm went out of fashion -- Joseph anxiously faces a new teaching job, Augustine gives birth to a second son (Victorien Delmare), and Marcel's maiden aunt (Therese Liotard) meets her future husband (Didier Pain) while walking Marcel in the park. For this middle-aged couple, love is a waltz in a summer shower. Her umbrella catches glints of a rainbow...
...rest of us, will summer ever be lighthearted again? Will no shirtless youth dive gallantly into the peonies to catch a Frisbee? Will no maiden swish barefoot across a dewy moonlit lawn? Eventually, yes, when poultry or medicine comes to the rescue. But not this tick-plagued summer, not just...