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Marjorie Garber, a Shakespearean scholar and professor of English at Haverford college, will become the English Department's only full-time tenured woman professor next fall...
...effect, and he rarely resorts to flashy editing. He wrings remarkable comedy from a stock situation (the impersonator), but because the characters have such depth, and because the story accumulates meaning as it goes along, every laugh is fresh, every sentiment unforced. Epic in scope, dexterous in execution, almost Shakespearean in its authority, Kagemusha affirms Kurosawa's reputation as one of our few world-class directors...
DIED. Elizabeth Smith Friedman, 88, cryptographer and co-author of the 1957 book The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined, in which she and her husband William used modern statistical methods of linguistic analysis to dispute the theory that Sir Francis Bacon was the secret author of Shakespeare's plays; of arteriosclerosis; in Plainfield, N.J. Learning code-breaking during World War I at the U.S. Government's Riverbank Laboratories in Geneva, Ill., Friedman served as an expert witness in such trials as the so-called Doll Woman Case of 1944, in which an antique doll dealer in New York City...
...contrary, I put up with an enormous amount of grief. They commonly refer to me as "The Shakespearean Linebacker" and even "Pops." No, on respect...
...shining spotlights into their midnight trysts. He is a perverse god; he loves making grand entrances, sweeping everyone into line within his great play, dominating everyone's lives and letting them know he knows what they're thinking and who they're sleeping with. He's a magnificent, Shakespearean son of a bitch...