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...trust Shakespeare." Here that means highlighting each word and gesture so that it plays for a modern audience. In Much Ado Hands digs deep into a bag that must be marked TRICKS THAT WORK. A courtly messenger declaims his prose in an Elmer Fudd accent; Benedick parades his manhood with the rakish tilt of his sword sheath; Constable Dogberry (Christopher Benjamin) casually flings a purse in the air, and his deputy Verges catches it in his hat. The gags, however earthbound, raise laughs hearty enough to fill Broadway's biggest house. But around the surefire comic bits, Hands continues...
...Rilke in his constricting time (circa 1900) and suffocating place (Habsburg Vienna). Given these obstacles, plus the additional one of a neurotic mama, no other modern poet grew more-or had further to grow. His early poems were distinguished principally for their alliteration and easy sentimentality, and his early manhood remarkable mainly for its seductions...
MORE THAN SIMPLY a story of crisis, The Stone Boy is also the story of a boy's growing up. Arthur's transition from adolescence to manhood produces some of the film's most memorable and painful scenes, including a moving confessional by Robert Duvall that he is lonely and wants his son Arnold to come home. The scenes between Close and Duvall also are highly powerful, though occasionally encumbered by trite phrases...
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...meeting, a Dennis selectman presented Studds with a petition signed by 314 residents calling for his immediate resignation because he had "de-based his manhood" and could no longer effectively represent the 10th district. Demonstrators with picket signs reading "Get the Gay Out" and "Dump Studds" also greeted the 46-year-old Congressman...