Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maynard School, Broadway and Windsor...
...control of Europe? It is hard to see how Britain could have gone on waging war indefinitely without any allies. And though Churchill had vowed to fight on the beaches, there were always others who might have been more "reasonable." One such figure was the self-exiled Duke of Windsor, who had taken refuge in Spain after the fall of France. He made it clear that he opposed the war, and the Germans tried through intermediaries to recruit him as a mediator in peace talks, even suggesting that he might thus be restored to his throne. Both...
...Bill Windsor, the awkward, understanding bridge between fantasy and "reality," Jim Marino gets the job done. Brazaitis completely immerses himself in the drama's insanity. But he also adds a religious dimension to Gerald's comic cluelessness, a serious conflict that, of course, evaporates by the drama's chaotic conclusion...
Terrible are the humiliations that Shakespeare inflicts on the aging Sir John Falstaff. Stuffed into a hamper of dirty laundry to escape a jealous husband, the portly knight gets ignominiously flung into the Thames. "Oh, oh, oh," he finally cries as the supposedly merry wives of Windsor burn him with their tapers. In setting this black comedy to music, Verdi and his librettist, Arrigo Boito, degrade the hero still further. "Lord, make him impotent," the women chorus as everyone flails and pummels the fallen hero. And yet after his punishment on the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music last...
...Sackler exhibit contains 130 pieces brought together from numerous prestigious collections around the world; among these are the National Gallery in London and the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Royal Library, Windsor Castle). The exhibition and accompanying catalogue by Cropper were made possible through the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trust and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs...