Word: romeos
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...made capital and the Bolshoi became a primary cultural ambassador of the newly founded Soviet Union - a role it maintained for the next seven decades. Through the years, the Old Theater's stage was home to some of dance's biggest names, including Galina Ulanova, who danced the definitive Romeo and Juliet in the 1950s, and her contemporaries, the couple Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev. During the height of the cold war, it remained one of the Soviet Union's most potent exports. Beautiful and mysterious, the Russian dancers' sleek lines and avant-garde choreography dazzled Westerners...
...Nevertheless, district attorney David McDade argues that Wilson is a poor cause for those attempting to have the Romeo and Juliet laws apply retroactively. "By any standard of moral conduct," McDade told TIME, "society cannot accept that kind of behavior and tolerate it. He and the others in the room had sex repeatedly with this 17-year-old girl, who was at best semi conscious. Genarlow Wilson is not a hero, and he is not the martyr that he has been made...
...plus lifetime registration as a sex offender. Now he is at the center of a heated legislative battle in the Georgia state senate to rewrite the law under which he was convicted in 2005. Public reaction to his imprisonment led to the passage in 2006 of a so-called "Romeo and Juliet" law, which made most consensual oral sex between minors a misdemeanor, rather than a felony. That law didn't help Wilson, however, since it included language that specifically barred its application to those who had already been convicted. Since then, the young man's supporters have been trying...
...conviction to a lesser charge, be sentenced to 15 years in prison, with 10 of those years suspended. Given the two years he has already served, Wilson would already be eligible for parole. But Wilson?s attorney, B.J. Bernstein, said the offer was still unfair since, under the new Romeo and Juliet laws, Wilson would be subject to a maximum of just one year in jail - and not have the stigma of mandatory lifetime registration as sex offenders...
Remember when Leonardo DiCaprio fired guns called “Longswords” in that film version of Romeo and Juliet? Let Professor Marjorie Garber take your understanding of past and present one step further with a course that explores the interaction of Shakespeare’s plays with “Freud and Marx, Brecht and Beckett, film, contemporary politics, and American popular culture.” And you thought Henry V had nothing to do with the war in Iraq...