Word: re-enactment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this book, it's possible to see Elliott as the archetypical Roosevelt. During Prohibition, two of Theodore's sons, Theodore Jr. and Kermit, helped found a club called "the Room" so they could booze in private. They dabbled in politics and traveled the globe trying, with ( disastrous results, to re-enact their father's adventures. Theodore Jr. did end up as a hero of the D-day landings, but Kermit's story was tragic: his heavy drinking persisted, and he eventually killed himself. The maliciously funny Alice Roosevelt Longworth was the real original of the group, but as a woman...
...Sophistry, an almost random set of fashionably themed vignettes by Jonathan Marc Sherman, the teacher and student re-enact their encounter in parallel recollections. Rapp rampages through both, first as a bratty seducer who hides doubts about his sexuality by swiveling his hips, shaking a finger cockily in the professor's face, tearing off his own clothes and collapsing in puppyish self-pity, then as a mute but furious victim. His vengeance gives Pendleton a career moment too. Reduced to a job as Santa, he stands disheveled, muttering the words of one Christmas carol while hearing the tune of another...
...henchmen. Harris and Lewis were pals and musical rivals of Prince's back in junior high school, and have gone on to some substantial success of their own by producing the last two top-selling Janet Jackson albums. But in Graffiti Bridge they are called on to re-enact the old adolescent competition. Prince bests them, natch. As a colleague explains, "Prince wrote the script, pulled in the money, directed and used his own studios. How could we expect a different ending...
...classic folk drama originated in 1634, after villagers vowed to re-enact Christ's Passion regularly if they were spared from the Black Death. Ever since, residents periodically abandon their main occupations as farmers and wood-carvers, let their hair and beards grow long and compete for the prized roles. As usual, the premiere attracted padres, pilgrims and politicians, ; among them Bavarian Minister-President Max Streibl and U.S. Ambassador Vernon Walters. Mercedes-Benz limousines stood outside the 4,684-seat theater, and the hotels and restaurants were jammed...
Dramatized "re-creations" of real-life events are suddenly everywhere. Tabloid shows like A Current Affair, Fox's America's Most Wanted and NBC's Unsolved Mysteries use them to re-enact just about everything from grisly murders to purported UFO sightings. Now the technique has entered a region some thought sacrosanct. It is the centerpiece of two network prime-time news shows: NBC's Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (which drew good ratings in three outings in late summer and will return for three more this season) and the just-introduced Saturday Night with Connie Chung, on which Jones appeared...