Word: othello
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...possessions, is perhaps the least tangible yet the most zealously guarded. To be known for integrity and honor, most people willingly labor a lifetime. Even a rogue may cherish the mistaken notion that he enjoys the respect of his community. As Shakespeare's foulest villain, Iago, puts it in Othello, "Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls." That is why the concepts of slander and libel, and of the right of the aggrieved to seek redress for defamation, were introduced into English common law during the Middle Ages and why those ideas survive...
First: I' faith, methinks I spied Master Garvey among the groundlings to see Paul Winfield play the tragical Moor in Othello on the very eve that the Padres clinchethed the westernmost division of the National League...
...dictionary defines rape as an "outrageous violation" and a victim as "someone badly used." It is to Olsen's great credit that, in a strangely hypnotic, grieving book, he provides these phrases with a human dimension. "Motiveless malignity" is a fine phrase in Othello; in contemporary life, evil generally has a reason, however perverted. Olsen has tracked it to its source. -By J.D. Reed
...fall of 1981 she had been acting almost without a break since 1977. At 24 she had made nine movies, had played commedia dell'arte and Polish romantic stage literature for the Drama Theater, and had just finished taking the part of Desdemona in a TV production of Othello. She was at the top of her profession in a country where theater is taken seriously...
...certainly, she says. There would be no problem at all. But the production of Othello, in which she played Desdemona before she left, still has not been shown on Polish television. Do the authorities resent what she insists is not a defection...