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...mean, there is always a slow-dance pleasure from blatantly sexual slow-jamz like “In the Kitchen.” There is something remotely Shakespearean in the stanza: “Girl-I’m-Ready-To-Toss-Your-Salad/While I’m makin’ love, I’ll be feastin’/Girl you in the kitchen/Sweatin’ up a storm.” Even the chorus is sure to inspire many frenzied thoughts of adult life in boys’ and girls’ minds as they stare...
...fellow students were watching auditions for a campus production of Macbeth, the director pressed them all to read for roles. The lines, Kline recalls, "meant nothing to me--they might as well have been in Croatian. I just used the deepest voice I could and tried to sound Shakespearean." That was enough to get him cast as a "bleeding sergeant" who speaks 30 lines of verse, collapses and is carried offstage in Act I--"to wait two and a half hours for the curtain call...
...free elections as vindication of its push for democracy in the Arab world. This week 3 million Lebanese voters begin going to the polls to elect a government that the U.S. hopes will be the first in 29 years free of Syrian control. And in the saga's final, Shakespearean twist, it is Hariri's son Saad, 35, a political novice who briefly fled the country after Rafiq's death, who is favored to become the next Prime Minister...
...you’re itching for a good time, then Mather seems like the place to be. Particularly if you’re in the mood for Shakespearean hilarity...
...this lesson in love in particular that Fox and company hope to bring to the fore. Although many production elements will be reminiscent of Shakespearean times, including the outdoor setting, a few aspects will be updated to deliver the play’s message to a modern audience. “I think the best example of this is in the character of Feste,” says Fox. “In this production he has a project, which is to bring the characters to a more balanced view of love...