Word: shakespeareanisms
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...elevates the lowlifes and mocks the highlifes. It's steeped in lived experience, with voices as distinctive and regional as a crab boil. Simon may be angry and intellectual--The Wire differs from most TV drama, he says, because it's based in Greek tragedy about fated individuals, not Shakespearean tragedy about heroic individuals--but his show doesn't play like a tract or a thesis. It's full of memorable characters, like Omar (Michael Kenneth Williams), the principled bandit who robs from drug dealers; Detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West), the boozy, dogged cop trying to work cases the city...
...rated, if not...Well this performance is not X-rated. But, I mean, I imagine that “Titus” could be X-rated. It’s really, really graphic, but in a sort of symbolic way.RR: Is “Titus” your favorite Shakespearean play?JVM: It’s up there. Definitely top five, top three maybe.Cecilia I. Soler ’08 RR: Who do you play in “Titus”?CS: I play Tamora, she’s the Queen of the Goths—kind...
...Even those who liken Harvard and Yale to twins have to admit that no twins are truly identical. For instance, some twins have different genders or different personalities. Other twins are separated at birth and then reunited in Shakespearean comedies. So, what makes John Harvard different from Eli Yale? Personality? Gender? Or something else altogether, like Eli’s birth defect...
...Almost Shakespearean, no? True, the Bard didn't offer much in the way of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) or special-interest vehicles--two key sources of Citi's pain. He did, however, understand diversification. "My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, nor to one place," said Antonio, the Merchant of Venice. "Therefore, my merchandise makes...
...campaign of comedian Stephen Colbert, who wrote for her column earlier this month. Her speech also included the caricatures found in her biweekly Times column. Speaking about Vice President Dick Cheney, she remarked, “Darth Vader is shaking his fist at Iran now. What could be more Shakespearean than that?” But Dowd also expressed optimism about at least one Republican politician. “If Rudy Giuliani can be a Red Sox fan, then anything can happen,” she concluded with a smile...