Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Claudio's charges of Hero's infidelity are the negative side, and the bond between the celebrated Beatrice and Benedick, constructed of words alone, the positive. There's meaning in Shakespeare's juxtaposition of his parody of the hackneyed romance embodied in Hero and Claudio and the thoroughly unorthodox relationship between Beatrice and Benedick. Sellars, however, is too busy moving his dummies around the stage to waste any time developing Shakespeare's main theme...
...energies of Soviet art. The outsiders now became insiders; their opposition to the old order and its tastes was crystallized on a political level that, as artists, they could enthusiastically serve. But they were not content to be dandies like Marinetti. They wanted to construct. Hence their special relationship to the young Communist state. Today no revolutionary government that had just seized control of a vast, economically foundering country would bother with artists or art schools. The U.S.S.R. did so after the Revolution, thanks to two circumstances that hold true in no modern capitalist state. Print was thinly spread among...
...stage he declared of his relationship with Thorpe: "By the end of 1962 I was very unhappy. I just wanted to finish the whole thing myself, Thorpe and everything. I just wanted to kill Thorpe." The judge described Scott as "a crook, a fraud, a sponger and a parasite...
From the beginning, Thorpe had insisted that he was innocent both of the criminal charges and of any sexual relationship with Scott. In a written statement at the end of the trial, Thorpe called the verdict "totally fair, just and a complete vindication." Then he embraced his wife, a former concert pianist, and his mother, both of whom had attended the trial, and climbed into his old black Humber. He said he intended to take a short rest with his family, away from the glare of publicity...
...these lovable guys, an average Boy Scout troop would seem like a bunch of Bowery bums. The warden (Patrick McGoohan), of course, is a sadistic horror. He speaks in malevolent epigrams ("Some are never destined to leave Alcatraz - alive") and carries on what appears to be a kinky relationship with his pocket nail clipper...