Word: taylors
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Among the performers at the 118-year-old theater were: Stephen Drury '77, Randall Hodgkinson, Igor Kipnis '52, Robinson Professor of the Humanities Robert D. Levin '68, Christopher Taylor '92, Luise Vosgerchian and a number of undergraduates...
...some scenes. Albee describes Martha's character as "A large, boisterous woman, 52, looking somewhat younger, ample, but not fleshy." Moulton hoofs around stage, frizzy red hair barely contained by a banana clip, more like a flouncy, black-bra-ed Roseanne than the saggy, sleazy yet sexy woman Liz Taylor portrays expertly in the 1966 Warner Bros. film adaptation...
...Living Translation is actually a revision and updating of The Living Bible (1972), Kenneth Taylor's loose, breezy paraphrase of the Old and New Testaments (I Samuel 20: 30: "You son of a bitch"). It was frankly intended for readers who found Scriptural translations tough sledding, and those readers responded gratefully. The Living Bible has sold 40 million copies to date...
...together this latest version, a team of 90 specialists checked Taylor's paraphrase against the original documents. The result thus carries more scholarly authority than The Living Bible, but it remains remarkably similar in language to its popular predecessor. And its radical difference from the King James is apparent from the outset. In Genesis, when God discovers that Adam and Eve have eaten the forbidden fruit, the King James conjures up a roar of rebuke: "And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou has done?" The Deity in the New Living Translation sounds like...
...Austen!", the Bard is back in maximum force. There are two films based on Romeo and Juliet: one using the text but transplanted to a Miami-esque beach town; the other, Love Is All There Is, set in the Bronx and retold by writer-directors Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor. Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus Trevor Nunn has a Twelfth Night starring Helena Bonham Carter and Nigel Hawthorne. Richard III, recently modded up by Ian McKellen, gets the Al Pacino treatment in Looking for Richard...