Word: othello
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...19th century Italian master Giuseppe Verdi, is one of his most famous pieces. The opera recreates the psychological tension and villainy of William Shakespeare’s play of the same title. Originally named “Iago,” the opera focuses on the vocal interplay between Othello and his traitorous ensign, Iago, who spends the course of the play engineering Othello’s downfall. According to Artistic Director and Conductor Channing Yu ’93, LHO’s production boasts a full orchestra to accompany this vocal interplay. The orchestra is comprised...
...manipulate people’s minds” and thus managed to “approximate the mindfuck.” Likewise, anyone vaguely familiar with “Othello” does not need to be told that Iago “creates alarm and confusion in Othello, as well as searing jealousy, and these are the distinguishing marks of the mindfuck.” He claims that “the concept of mindfucking...has taxonomic power: it unifies disparate phenomena under a common heading, bringing out implicit similarities.” Having introduced a new word, McGinn...
...greedy automakers quit crying wolf and lower interest rates? Why let credit-card companies have such high interest rates, too? Crack down on all the offers. We own our house and all our vehicles outright because we had to manage our money. David Leatherman, OTHELLO, WASH...
...than friends. He’s into dicking around with his blockmates—who hate her, or rather the disruptive nature of squeeky bedsprings at all hours of the day (except during lecture) and girls who don’t clean up their toys. She wants to play Othello and Desdemona. He wants to play stockbroker and naughty school girl—the kind that skips section and doesn’t do the reading...
...however, end with the tote bag. The more enthralled I became with John, the more his enthusiasm for the Bard rubbed off on me. Somewhere over the course of my stalking-filled semester, I fell in love with the books inside the bag—Othello and Hamlet earned prominent places on the shelf I had previously reserved for the Harry Potter canon, and eventually scored a shelf of their own. When John tragically left Cambridge to move across the country, I sought another Shakespeare course in honor of his memory. I was rewarded not long after by Shakespearean Tragedy...