Word: pardes
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Unlike Harvard's other student playwrights--the authors of Bicentennial Follies, for example--LaZebnik draws his chief inspiration from literary classics rather than from the contemporary American scene. His technique, like Tom Stop-pard's in Rosencrantz and Guildenstein are Dead, is to abstract well-known characters from their original dramatic setting and place them in an absurd world where they toy with the conventions of language, and quest--unsuccessfully, of course--for the meaning of their existence...
...most famous artist in England. John was then 51, and he had been a public figure since the turn of the century; he would continue to be one, through progressive embalmings as a Grand Old Man, for another 30 years. Nearly 6 ft. tall, bearded like the pard, and booming like a bittern, much given to fancy dress-cloaks, Carlyle-size black hats, gold earrings-he boozed and philandered his way through every level of English society. He was a licensed vertical invader, conspicuous even in the notable roster of Edwardian eccentrics that stretched from the Cafe Royal to Bloomsbury...
...bearded like the pard, Prince is one of the theater's most formidable figures. At 26 he co-produced his first show, Pajama Game. Four years later he was enough of a Broadway inside joke to be lampooned as the hyperthyroid boy-wonder impresario of Say, Darling. The producer of such hits as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Fiddler on the Roof, and producer-director of Cabaret, Company and Follies, he is not treated like a figure of fun any more...
...Fauves, noted that Braque. "a very bold young man." seemed to reduce everything to "cubes." Soon, the word cubism was a part of art's vocabulary. Picasso had also begun experimenting with geometric planes, and when he and Braque met. they formed a partnership. Picasso called his friend "Pard." an expression gleaned from the silent western films then popular in France, and the two men painted so much alike that even they sometimes had difficulty telling who had painted what. The partnership gradually dissolved, but not until it had changed the course of modern...
...least one company (Laddie Boy) is coming out with such varying dishes as whale meat, hash and eggs. But most big canners still insist that the one-dish menu is right; all have big experimental kennels where they constantly check their formulas on kennels of fine dogs. Says Pard Division Head Clarence M. Olson: "If humans could eat one balanced food such as we now feed to our pets, we'd add years to our life and life to our years...