Word: viola
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Afterwards, the musicians did come out for two beautiful encores. The first, John Cale's "Gun," was a song Siouxsie and the Banshees had covered in the past. The second encore was the high-light of the evening. Siouxsie at her best sang as Cale strummed an electric viola for a stunning performance of "Venus in Furs," a song from the legendary 1967 album The Velvet Underground and Nico. Though originally Lou Reed had sung the lyrics, Sioux's appropriation of the words, "shiny shiny, shiny boots of leather," lent the song a sexy feminine air, which perfectly complemented Cale...
HELEN HUNT: Taking the plunge into Shakespeare, the TV star turned Oscar winner comes through swimmingly. As the shipwrecked, lovestruck, cross-dressing Viola in a limited-run Broadway revival of Twelfth Night, Hunt sparkles almost as much as the onstage pool in a production that is a midsummer night's dream...
...most extensive U.S. visit to date, a six-week run that began at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and is now at Washington's Kennedy Center--where its no-star production of Hamlet just set a house record. Helen Hunt, fresh from her Oscar, will star as Viola in Twelfth Night, opening in mid-July at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. R&J, a quirky, all-male version of Romeo and Juliet, is creating buzz off-Broadway. And just arrived in New York, following a nationwide tour and a stint in London, is Love's Fire, an evening of seven short...
...what, indeed, determines merit? All those science camps mom and dad sent you to when you were little? That inspiring high-school English teacher, Mr. Perry, who always knew you were a poet inside? Or maybe it was all those grueling afternoons spent practicing the viola when you would have preferred being outside, playing with the kids on your block. Merit is enabled by all of the above and more. Merit is a promise, an investment in human capital. And this investment necessitates time, encouragement and, of course, money...
Maybe, mom had to work two jobs just to meet the rent, and asking for a viola seemed an incredibly misplaced and futile request. Perhaps their local community was economically depressed. Maybe, instead of Mr. Perry to show them how to release the pent-up emotions inside, they could only muster up a can of spray paint and a freeway underpass...