Word: plebeians
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...book) suffered stoically for years while his ardent and unstable wife, Lady Caroline Lamb, made an idiot of herself with Lord Byron and others. But at least Melbourne, Lady Caroline and Byron were more interesting than Charles and Diana. Maybe Bill Clinton belongs to a more vigorous tradition of plebeian friskiness: Tom Jones transplanted to Arkansas...
...Nathan Lane as Pseudolus, the role created by Zero Mostel. Though only 40 and only Irish, Lane is the mystic repository of the ancients' physical gag bag. A double take is concrete poetry when he does it, and a pratfall a plie. He also elevates some of his more plebeian colleagues. Mark Linn-Baker, no natural farceur, is at first uneasy as the fluttery Hysterium. But when he gets into dead-virgin drag and Lane sings a mock-passionate "You're lovely," Forum reaches its Seven Hills peak...
...know, I'd like to be sincere and all, but then I'd look like an even bigger idiot. And I already look like that King George guy." Beneath the hype and the dress, Hanks is a good guy who knows how to make people feel at ease, even plebeian reporters. He knew his place in the scheme of the evening...
...seems our venerable elitist University has developed plebeian proclivities over the summer break. Bowing down to the masses of conformity, Harvard has just earned the distinction of being the first Ivy League school to accept the "common application...
...Meryl Streep. All one had to do was wave one's little piece of green, gold or platinum plastic, and waiters and clerks would fawn prettily. Such potent snob appeal once seemed irresistible -- until American Express "cardmembers" began weighing the costs of privilege against the benefits of more plebeian credit cards. While the AmEx elite shelled out annual fees, Discover clients were issued free cards. Amex users had to pay their bills in full each month; savvy bank-card customers enjoyed revolving credit at modest interest rates. AmEx clients could brandish their cards in 3.7 million upscale establishments worldwide; Visa...