Word: helena
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...with most of Shakespeare's comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play about romance gone awry. The young woman, Hermia, is in love with Lysander. But her father Egeus has another husband in mind for her, Demetrius. Meanwhile, another woman, Helena, is passionately in love with Demetrius, who once returned her love but now repudiates...
...going to find the one man who is absolutely right for you," declares Helena Amram in ads touting her chain of matchmaking services. But the high- profile doyenne of dating has a date of her own -- in New York State's Supreme Court, where Attorney General Robert Abrams filed a suit last week against several of Amram's firms. The accusation: her clients paid wildly inflated prices for nightmarish nights on the town...
...report, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Commonwealth Fund, the Exxon Corporation and the Helena Rubenstein Foundation, is entitled "Recommendations for Future Mass Media Campaigns to Prevent Preteen and Adolescent Substance Abuse...
...gutsy current film of Henry V has won him comparison to Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier. As he did in the film, Branagh onstage would triple as impresario, director and star -- with the fillip of featuring his wife of five months, Emma Thompson, as Midsummer's willowy Helena and Lear's gnarled Fool. Despite the troupe's alphabetical billing, what was on offer was plainly a star turn...