Word: reigns
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...fictitious, can threaten our safety, happiness, or otherwise get the best of us. Take, for example, if at this very meal I had foreseen myself a champion eater and ingested 150 popcorn shrimp. Bad idea. But here is the beauty of writing: on paper, in words, imagination has free reign. The untrue or hypothetical can withstand trial, cannot get the best of you, and folly is permitted. In the spirit of imagination, then, of Wonka-esque creative rendering, permit me this brief flight of fancy: Miles and I are seated at the Scrabble board, prepared to engage in this trivial...
...general, the “Picture” version of the show features a cast that imitates the movie gesture for gesture. However, the live version certainly does have freer reign to be creative with the material, and it takes advantage of this freedom. I, personally, did not feel like I was watching something completely new, but the live visual stimulation felt different enough that I didn’t mind not screaming out the lines (Though, more accurately, I may have whispered them). The cast looked their parts and seemed to thrive on the sexy silliness...
...Uganda's independence from Britain in 1962 and the country's first postcolonial prime minister; in Johannesburg, South Africa. The savvy, but ultimately despotic, politician, who tried unsuccessfully to unite Uganda's factionalized parties, was overthrown in 1971 by his military aide, Idi Amin. After Amin's brutal reign, Obote regained power in 1980, but an allegedly rigged election and his repressive rule led to his ouster and exile to Zambia...
...very concept of "black Victorians" may surprise. There had, of course, been Africans in Britain long before Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, but in the 19th century they were a familiar sight - not that you'd know that from most accounts of the old Queen's reign. Yet the show's curator, Jan Marsh, discovered that Victorian art depicted many black subjects - not only servants, but also soldiers, sailors, actors, musicians and pugilists. "I began to look more systematically and discovered hundreds [of these images]," she says. "It both reveals Victorian art as not as white as we imagine...
...even those who voted were cynical. Thafir Aga, 38, a taxi driver in Sadiya, said he voted against the constitution because it "is dividing Iraq." "The government is only Kurdish and Iranian, it is not a Sunni or Shi'ite government." Many Sunnis, who benefited under Saddam's reign, regard the Shi' ites in government as pawns of Iran because politicians such as Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari spent the war in exile in Iraq's neighbor. Aga also had little faith in a fair vote and said the government would fix the election in its favor. "They just want...