Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1980s into the Spree Decade. "You work to have what you like, when you like," explains Nino Merenda, 31, a hair stylist in Skokie, Ill. "At this stage, I'd rather have a nice car than money in the bank." In fact, Merenda owns two cars: an Alfa Romeo and a Fiat...
...fact, the highlight of Another Country is the verbal jousting of the pair, reminiscent of Mercutio and Romeo. In one scene Karney admonishes Tomarken for offering one of the young boys a drink. Tomarken counters, "Well he's too young for anything else!" and quickly adding, "I'm not a pedophile you know...
...recital's final in-house work was 'Six Preludes', by James Romeo, Dunster's house music tutor. Romeo wrote these preludes as simpler pieces for his piano students at Harvard, but in their simplicity they display the composer's talent for the pleasingly lyrical. The first of the preludes uses the sustain pedal to allow harp-like tones to reverberate within the piano, creating a sort of water-color of sound reminiscent of Debussy...
MCKELLEN bounds back and forth across the stage as he moves through his repetoire. Less convincing in the younger parts--Hamlet and Romeo for instance--McKellen nonetheless instills all the speeches with enthusiasm and conveys a love for each one's poetry...
...also full of Shakespeare and good humor. One of the highlights of the show comes when McKellen challenges the audience to find a single happy marriage in Shakespeare's canon--and shoots down every suggestion--from Othello and Desdemona to Brutus and Portia--with a few witty retorts. "Romeo and Juliet?" McKellen muses, "Short and sweet...