Word: queene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monument honor guard comes from a different branch of the military service each day. Wednesday the Navy, Thursday, Air Force. They stand, two of them, stiff to the point of being inhuman--not simply stationary like a British guardsman to the Queen, but stationary in an uncomfortable position. Summers in Taiwan can be unbearably hot and muggy, with the temperature hovering around the low nineties, the humidity 70 per cent. The guard moves every hour, the two men exchanging weapons and positions at the opening to the rectangular memorial building. They begin motion when the bell in the President...
Proponents of the changes, by contrast, claim that the simpler text will attract people who have fallen away from the church, especially the young. Presenting a copy of the Alternative Service Book to Queen Elizabeth last week, Archbishop of York Stuart Blanch declared that the Book of Common Prayer was "imposed by law upon a largely unwilling church." The new liturgy, he stated, is a "people's book." Perhaps. But traditionalists cite a Gallup survey showing that a majority of English churchgoers favor the old rites over...
...women exist? If women exist only to be angels, what of our darker thoughts? Some of Gilbert and Gubar's conclusions inspire shouts of "Eureka!" Snow White, for instance, isn't an Oedipal struggle, but a feminist one. The two women--sweet, passive Snow White, and the evil, active Queen are simply mirror images of each other, and the battle is not to win the man but to reconcile the two sides of the feminine psyche. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, written when she was pregnant (an almost continuous state for her from ages...
With the aid of Henry Purcell's rich-textured Fairy Queen score, Epstein underscores the conflicts in Shakespeare's text. His lovers are violent hotbloods; his fairies are insect-like nature sprites, inhuman and unsettling; his "rude mechanicals" quarrel with earnestness and acrobatic precision in their stage business. The curtain rises at the Wilbur to reveal a Renaissance tapestry of equestrian combat, fair enough warning of the production's themes, and when Theseus (Harry Murphy) and Hippolyta (Karen MacDonald) have it out in a mock combat during the overture, the audience gets the message...
Jamie Lee Curtis gets into the worst scrapes. Tracked and trapped by homicidal maniacs in Halloween and Prom Night, deposited by leprous spooks into The Fog bank, and now manhandled by a psycho transsexual on a Terror Train, Curtis is the new virgin queen of shivers. No-nonsense intelligence shines through her friendly, angular, leonine face (a gift from her mother, Janet Leigh, who pioneered the modern horror trend 20 years ago by taking a bloodbath in Psycho). Thus when she flees into a dark closet or abandoned sleeping car-where, of course, the evil one waits, knife...