Word: interpreters
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Ricky McGinn could be one lucky man. Thanks to a fortuitous collision of timing and what many will interpret as political expediency, the convicted murderer and rapist will live to see another sunrise. Scheduled to die Thursday in what might have been just another routine Texas execution, McGinn was saved, at least temporarily, by his governor's abrupt change of heart. Thursday afternoon, hours before the scheduled lethal injection, George W. Bush sanctioned a 30-day stay of execution for McGinn...
...List - and briefly interpret - the first ten amendments to the Constitution...
...Hamlet is dead...but his corporation lives on. As one of many as of late who has expressed the desire to re-interpret Shakespeare, director Michael Almereyda has seen fit to take the age-old tale of the Prince of Denmark and set it in late '90s New York City. While we've seen a narcissistic Hamlet, a visceral Hamlet and a verbose Hamlet, now we have the young prince in a world of laptops and limousines, cellular phones and c-notes, Mercedes and martinis. Elsinore is an apartment building, Denmark is a financial concern, Fortinbras attempts a hostile takeover...
...plays like Waiting for Lefty or Not One Flea Spare. It is the nature of theater and not the content of the play itself that is important. Theater of any type teaches us-sometimes it teaches us how to watch and learn from and understand people, sometimes how to interpret their actions and see past their language, sometimes how to love villains and how to hate heroes. But always it teaches us how to observe and how to learn from observation. And the more we learn how to do that, the less we approach the world with prejudice and preconception...
...your dog should be on better speaking terms? Well, you can get there with a little practice. In his new book, How to Speak Dog, Stanley Coren claims that a dog has the intellect and vocabulary of a two-year-old child--but humans must learn to interpret their canine's nonverbal noises, tail wags and other body language. A sample: for dogs, a yawn is not a sign of fatigue but of anxiety. And each of those wags can tell a variety of stories, depending on posture and pace. More about Coren's theories can be found at ANIMALNEWS.COM...