Word: nerissa
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...happy person? -Nerissa Quizon, Manila Happy? I haven't figured that out yet. I have my days. There are moments when you have feelings of well-being, a certain peace. There are periods when that's more frequent than others. My children make me happy...
...money reveals itself to be the foundation for their actions. Antonio's friendship with Bassanio is the relationship between benefactor and courtesan. Bassanio's love for Portia is linked to the fortune she will bring him, and even the marriage between Bassanio's man Gratiano and Portia's maid Nerissa (Catherine Crow HGSE '99) is contingent upon their employers' financial union. The Christians themselves embody the gross materialism they condemn in Shylock, and it taints even the "pure" love of Jessica (Shira Palmer-Sherman '02) and Lorenzo (Gregory David '99). Shakespeare's mockery of closure cannot be reached until...
...Nields, made up of Katryna and Nerissa Nields, Nerissa's husband David Nields (he took her last name when they were married), drummer Dave Hower and guitarist Dave Chalant, are inspired by folk-rock and alternative music. They misleadingly call themselves a rock band their songs reveal a vibrancy and eccentricity missing from modern rock...
...various lovers in the play act like lovesick teenagers, comically defusing potentially tense moments. Portia (Alissa Reiner) and Nerissa (Beth Turner) giggle like schoolgirls at a slumber party while they make fun of Portia's suitors in words and gestures. Chris Duffy's Bassanio is always wide-eyed and bewildered, looking like a teen on a first date. While he declares his love to Portia, Nerissa and Gratiano (John C. Buten) make puppydog eyes at each other and blow kisses from opposite sides of the stage...
...Last week the Sun newspaper of London disclosed that two first cousins of Queen Elizabeth's, who were listed as having died long ago in Burke's Peerage, a leading directory of the British aristocracy, actually spent decades as patients in a Surrey mental hospital; one still survives there. Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, two of the five children of the Queen Mother's brother John, and both severely retarded, were admitted to the Royal Earlswood hospital in 1941. Though Burke's lists the two women as having died in 1940 and 1961, respectively, Nerissa died only last year...