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...once peed in his armor, and the tinkle made the other actors giggle!"). Students without speaking parts play music that would make old Will squirm: Aegeon's plea for a stay of execution is accompanied by the Beatles' Help!, and the pursuit of a portly servant is enlivened with Queen's Fat Bottomed Girls. An overhead video shows the screaming crowds in Godzilla as the actors chase Antipholus around the classroom. "Shakespeare's fun," Esquith says. "And they learn tons of vocabulary...
...20th century. Gertrude Tiske's "Portrait of Mary" (1920) depicts a young woman with red braids in a yellow dress and checkered apron. The portrayal of Mary as an ordinary woman provides a stark contrast to the exalted portraits of earlier centuries, which showed Mary as saint, regal queen or grieving mother. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, an artist living in Boston, gives a striking interpretation of the Holy Family in eight photographs of a mother and father embracing their son in turn. Only the child is visible; the parents' faces remain hidden from the camera...
Seven months after JonBenet Ramsey's murder, with the investigation going nowhere, police detectives in her hometown of Boulder, Colo., took an extraordinary gamble. They flew to Atlanta, Ga., where her parents had moved after the killing, and drove to the suburb where the children's beauty-pageant queen was buried. On the eve of what would have been her seventh birthday, Aug. 6, 1997, the investigators broke into St. James Episcopal Cemetery with the help of a Georgia state cop who picked the lock on the gate. The Boulder detectives then planted a hidden microphone and camera...
...firm believer in this danger that the International Astronomical Union named an asteroid after him.) David Bjerklie and Unmesh Kher made sure the answers really were as smart as they seem. We were also fortunate to enlist Timothy Ferris (author of The Whole Shebang) and Matt Ridley (The Red Queen...
Matt Ridley is the author of The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue and Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters