Review of My Fair Lady‚ as put on by Big League Productions Last month I saw a wonderful production of the musical “My Fair Lady” at Jesse Hall as a part of the University of Missouri Concert Series in Columbia. Big League Productions‚ Inc. is the touring theatre company who put on the show. They brought their own set‚ which consisted of a study in which most of the scenes took place‚ as well as the street entrance to the home of Prof. Higgins. There was also an elaborate backdrop used for the scenes
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In The Gray Lady Gets Jiggy Ben Yagoda analyzes the word bullshit and how it is‚ by no doubt‚ fit to print. There is an importance behind being able to say the word bullshit without censorship‚ for if one is able to say it they will be able to point it out when bullshit is happening. Bullshit essentially can be defined as something that is untrue. Most commonly someone exclaims bullshit when they are calling someone else out on something that they believe to be false‚ or a lie. Additionally‚ it can
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is he? He is never late! It couldn’t of taken him this long. He has left me here‚ impatiently striding up and down this ridiculously tiny room. He’s done this on purpose‚ leaving me anxious‚ worried‚ but at the same time a little bit excited. Me‚ Lady Macbeth‚ I have managed to wrap a man around my little finger. A woman? I know this is wrong but the devilish feeling has climbed into my stomach‚ like your nervous‚ but excited. Almost as though your about to put on a performance‚ but in reality‚
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In The Book of the City of Ladies‚ there are four main characters that all uniquely develop the utopian model of Christine’s "City of Ladies." The first character‚ and most important‚ is Christine de Pizan as herself who connects the real world that she exists in to that of an imaginative world and its city symbolic of phylogeny and the reality of a women’s virtue. In her fantasy world she is ignorant of women’s virtue and talent and asks the three virtues of the validity of male misogyny. These
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start of a new life. A German immigrant said that “I thought she [Lady Liberty] was one of the seven wonders of the world.” This sentence informed me of the hope and wonder that immigrants felt when they saw her for the first time. In my story‚ “A figure appears in the distance. Her hand held towards the sky‚ her torch guiding me to my new home. ” emulates the same feeling of wonder and hope felt by the immigrants when they first saw lady
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As time went on Geisel produced more children’s books and started working on a project that was called The Seven Lady Godivas. Its intention was to be an adult retelling of the Lady Godiva saga‚ but it ended up being one of the largest flops Geisel ever worked on. Geisel’s illustrations that were supposed to be adult content were childish and did not fit the adult theme. This was also created during the depression. The cost was two dollars‚ but in Geisel’s words‚ “‘Nobody had two dollars’” (qtd.
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rather than a motel lounge for their first date. Also‚ he was wearing “grey wool slacks and tweed jacket” (Mukherjee 325) outside‚ and “an old T-shirt and lemon-pale boxer shorts” (Mukherjee 325) inside. Even James “hadn’t planned on seducing a Lucknow lady that afternoon” (Mukherjee 324) as Nafessa thought‚ he could have worn more decent clothes. James did not bother to dress up on their first date‚ in strong contrast to Nafessa’s plan to buy some new underwear afterwards. Furthermore‚ for the first
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Wag the Dog displays the encounter of circumstances: an upcoming election‚ an incumbent candidate that is on a diplomatic trip on China while a sex scandal is just in; the job of his advisers: prevent his defeat. What to do when reelection is in danger? Invent a war for long enough to secure the incumbent’s reelection. The films fit perfectly with the concept of how domestic and international politics are both a struggle for power‚ just under different conditions. In the film‚ the US is now the
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King Duncan - I will give my husband his crown and we shall rule. Even if I have to call down the evil spirits and take my emotions away‚ I want to feel like a man and kill him without remorse. I must go now and decide how he shall die‚ farewell. Lady
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Christine de Pisan was a French author and poetess‚ born in Venice in 1364. She started writing after her husband’s death and having to provide for herself and three children. (Encyc. Britannica) In The Book of the City of the Ladies she writes about high morals of women and that they deserve a better representation that many men portray them. In excerpt one‚ de Pisan writes that one day she way setting down reading books and being tired from the heavy content of the books she was reading‚ she decided
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