Word: shaun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movie. Surprisingly, many of the book's Eire-borne visions work as screedwriter becomes screenwriter and his prose gains the breadth of life. A tavernkeeper, H. C. Earwicker (Martin J. Kelley) sleeps drunkenly dreaming of his wife Anna Livia Plurabelle, his daughter and his two sons Shem and Shaun. In the back ground runs the ballad about Finnegan's Wake, the saga of a laborer who falls off a scaffold, then returns to life when the word whisky is mentioned...
...Earwicker's initials, as he himself explains, also stand for Here Comes Everybody and Haveth Childers Everywhere; his dreamscape is like a palimpsest in which myth overlays legend overlaying lore. Anna Livia Plurabelle (Jane Reilly) is also Dublin's river Liffey (life). His sons Shem and Shaun are, among others, Lucifer and the Archangel Michael. The film's multipersonaed hero himself combines such disparate characters as Adam, Tristram and Jonathan Swift. Joyce believed that the pun is mightier than the word. His double-entendres are so arcane and gusty that the movie must print explanations below...
...most of the music and lyrics, except for some excellent parodies, were perfunctory, the staging and dance (under Director Copper Coggins and head choreographer Jane Michaels) was lively and funny. Most of the best jokes were visual. Shaun Murphy, as Chairman of the Memory Cells of the machine, stumbled onstage supported by a wobbly staff to deliver a glaze-eyed listing of the foibles of Eastern men's schools (this number is a feature of the Junior Show which usually has the same level of tradition and humor to it as the Hasty Pudding's kick-line...
...financier, did warn them when he arrived last year that he "intended to be the kind of American you would like to see in your country." So it was no surprise when he showed up at the Dublin Horse Show astride his eight-year-old gelding, properly named Shaun, and proceeded to ride off with the walk-trot-canter event, even though he had not ridden competitively for 25 years. "I am delighted and grateful to have a win at the best horse show in the world," murmured the ambassador as he accepted his prize...
Both squads came close in the third period as the game opened up a little. At the six minute mark, Terrier Shaun Quinlan tipped a defenseman's shot over the Crimson cage, and then missed the net from ten feet away. Minutes later, with Harvard's Daly in the penalty box, B.U.'s Sobeski misfired from the corner of the Crimson net with Welch out of position...