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...wonderful time. It was Chelsea's seventeenth birthday, they came last Saturday, and he was there with Chelsea and with Hillary and with two or three of Chelsea's friends. And then they came upstairs to the stage, when we dropped the fire curtain, and they spent about forty minutes with the cast and everybody else. It was just delightful. He said it was very, very powerful, he loved it and he was impressed with the impact on young kids. And Chelsea loved it. And they came to New York specifically for Broadway. It was in all the papers...
Davis, who specializes in feminist social history, is the author Women in the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives. She collaborated on the 1983 French film "The Return of Martin Guerre." Today, she will get an LL.D...
Taylor, who calls himself a "pure mathematician" and has done work in number theory and representation theory, played a significant role in developing the recent solution to Fermat's last theorem, a problem that had baffled mathematicians since the seventeenth century...
Costume designer Gabriel Berry also combines the mysterious with the familiar by juxtaposing the Milanese court's clothing, based on the clothing of seventeenth-century European aristocrats, with Prospero's shaman costume. Ariel and Caliban, dressed and body-painted like native islanders, also contrast effectively with the conservatively outfitted Milanese. The butler Stephano (Charles Levin) and the jester Trinculo (Thomas Derrah) who boast more colorful costumes, go through several changes-including some cross-dressing-after they discover a glistering wardrobe...
...Seventeenth century Spain was notorious for the parsimony of its common diet: bread, beans, onions, a scrap of lamb or fish sometimes, and garlic, garlic, garlic. It was to French or Italian cooking what the crabby-looking servant girl grinding aioli in Diego Velazquez's Kitchen Scene with Christ in the House of Martha and Mary was to the sumptuous nudes of Titian or Veronese. A modern palate would recoil at the eggs slowly frying, or rather poaching, in oil on top of a clay stove in Velazquez's An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. But what an amazing...