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...Thankfully, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” was sufficiently captivating as a ballet that, despite minimal character interpretation, the dancers excelled as masters of their craft. Most impressive were Oberon and Titania, King and Queen of the Faeries...
Thirty years ago, the gay community was fighting (and losing) a real battle in the backyard of every Jewish boy’s grandmother. In June 1977, reacting to a modest gay rights ordinance adopted in Dade County, Florida, former beauty queen and Christian activist Anita Bryant mounted a campaign called, slyly enough, “Save Our Children.” Bryant and her SOC called for the repeal of the ordinance, which was the first in the country to grant protection in housing, public accommodations, and employment to people based on their “affectional or sexual...
...fact of her being Queen that made Elizabeth II the Woman of 1952. That year had no more respect for the governance of kings than for the government of politicians ... What, then, was Elizabeth's significance? It was no more-and no less-than the significance of a fresh young blossom on roots that had weathered many a season of wintry doubt. The British ... saw in their new young Queen a reminder of a great past when they had carved out empires under Elizabeth I and Victoria, and dared to hope that she might be an omen of a great...
Hawaiian Overthrow President BILL CLINTON signed a resolution in 1993 apologizing for the U.S.'s deposing Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani in 1893, which soon led to annexation...
...surprise nominee “Little Miss Sunshine,” which nabbed the Producers Guild Award for Best Picture in January, a strong indicator of the Oscar winner.Best Director: Clint Eastwood, “Letters from Iwo Jima”; Stephen Frears, “The Queen,”; Paul Greengrass, “United 93”; Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Babel”; Martin Scorsese, “The Departed”Ok, this is ridiculous. Three 6 Mafia, the blinged-out rapping trio, has an Oscar, while the man who directed...