Word: re-enactment
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...Stanley's later explorations of Equatorial Africa-stirring tales of hardship and struggle, replete with flying spears, poisoned arrows, and many a gentle rebuke from Stanley's elephant gun. Before Stanley died peacefully in bed in 1904, he seemed compelled again and again to try to re-enact his first and greatest triumph. He was a one-man missing-persons bureau when he went after Emin Pasha (real name: Eduard Schnitzer), German-born governor of a British-controlled province in the Sudan. The Pasha had been trapped in the interior during the Mahdi's uprising, was even...
...feud between great families. The somberest of these gallants falls to the King's men when his mistress cuts his bowstring. The story seems like mere costume drama until it is read beside A Case of Conscience, in which the stone-faced chapel puritans of mid-Victorian times re-enact a similar feud-this time in terms of a squalid yet somehow splendid squabble over the theology and the bricks and mortar of the Resmond Street Independent Church...
...typically ambitious Omnibus undertaking-but less ambitious in size than it started out to be. Two years ago, after listening to a British general expound over cocktails how Gettysburg "changed the course of civilization," Omnibus Executive Producer Robert Saudek decided to re-enact the battle on TV. At first it was to be treated as a classroom demonstration, with tin soldiers on a sand table. This gave way to a plan to film the battle at Lenox, Mass, on terrain resembling Gettysburg without the monuments. One hundred and fifty bearded and costumed actors and volunteer extras, all Civil War buffs...
...explain to our visitors that even for TIME this was an unusual morning. A camera crew had come to film television sequences for the British Broadcasting Corp. According to the script, TIME'S Foreign News Editor Thomas Griffith and a few members of his writing staff were to re-enact one of the frequent story conferences that are an important part of TIME'S editorial work. BBC plans to show the film later this month on its popular TV program, London Town, to give Britons an insight into TIME'S editorial operations...
...Hollywood, a studio movie set was swept for action as red-haired Maureen O'Hara, wigged to her knees, prepared to re-enact history's barest bareback ride in the title role of Lady Godiva of Coventry. After the set was cleared, all that remained were 14 film technicians (eleven of them women), no outsiders, not a single producer...