Word: queen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, the chorus of fairies does not appear convincingly attentive to the Fairy Queen. Perhaps they are thinking about that handsome woodland sprite they just met the other day, or are preoccupied by an itch on one or their wings. When they do make faces of exaggerated wonder, these changes of expression lack fluency. As a result, the fairies, supposedly spontaneous and playful, instead appear a bit stiff and their gestures somewhat perfunctory...
...twisting patter solos as the Lord Chancellor and Marcia Turner as Iolanthe pleading for her son's cause also give noteworthy performances. Yet some of the other characters seem less at ease. Jonathan Schwartz as Lord Tollolier cannot be understood very well over the orchestra. The voice of the Queen of the Fairies, portrayed by Emmy Brown, falters on the high notes and tends to drop off too quickly at the end of phrases. Her spoken lines are stronger and more convincing and reveal enticing bits of fairy, feminist wrath...
...staff flippant dismissal of Lani Guinier with the label of "Quota Queen," simplistically evades a real discussion of her views and suitability as Class Day speaker. Their treatment of Guinier is reminiscent of the superficial appraisal the national media as a whole gave her at the time of her nomination...
...Quota queen" Lani Guinier, on the other hand, is famous only for her attempts to dismantle democracy by turning it into a scheme for ensuring outcomes favorable to what she views as the interests of "authentic" minorities...
Adams gradually moved Sinn Fein into electoral politics. The party won some local elections, and in 1983 Adams was elected to Britain's House of Commons from the Belfast West constituency. He refused to take up his seat, since it required him to pledge allegiance to the Queen, but he relished the prestige of being a British M.P. In 1992 Adams lost the seat and was bitterly disappointed. "It was our own fault," he says. "We were complacent, and I was skating around the country doing other work...