Word: restorationism
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In 1553 Lady Jane Grey, age 15, was crowned Queen of England. Her reign lasted an inglorious nine days. She and her adolescent consort Guildford Dudley were beheaded, martyrs to a failed conspiracy by Protestants to prevent restoration of a Catholic monarchy. The story of Jane and Guildford, as told...
Hodel, a former head of the Bonneville Power Administration, took the onslaught with outward calm and an occasional smile. Iacocca was fired, he suggested, chiefly because he got too big for his britches. "The statue is more than Lee Iacocca," he said. Hodel's justification was, at best, a bit...
Last Monday, Feb. 10, Iacocca was in Washington for a morning ceremony at which Treasury Secretary James Baker presented the foundation with a check for $24 million, raised for the restoration by the sale of commemorative coins. Iacocca was praised lavishly by Baker for "a classic example of American volunteerism...
Restoration comedy depicted a world obsessed with money, manners, fashion and family tree, severe in its standards of social acceptability and brutal in its treatment of those deemed unfit. Bond's adaptation of the genre retains its rounded invective and withering humor. The wicked lord, pondering the corpse of his...
Arena Stage has long been receptive to avant-garde European writers and directors. In rescuing Restoration from relative obscurity (the only previous U.S. production, in 1985, played five performances at the 99-seat Illusion Theater in Minneapolis), the company has proved especially shrewd. The show displays both the adaptability of...