Word: versions
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Aguilera followed next and easily compensated for Jewel's weakened throat with a strong voice and heavily choreographed numbers with two male dancers. In a highly-charged performance that included "What a Girl Wants" and a cover version of "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire," she had the audience hooked. She closed with a seductive performance of her ubiquitous hit "Genie in a Bottle," looking very genie-like in velvet black pants and with an exposed stomach...
...tell in his movies ... It's sort of like... the truth about the human condition or the truth about emotions and what people are really feeling has become subversive because most of what we're presented in popular culture is total bullshit. It's some kind of commercially facile version of the way things are instead of the complicated truth of human existence...
...liberties taken in this version, then, are not in language; they are visual. Titus is, regardless of how modern audiences react to it, surprisingly faithful to Shakespeare in that it does not contradict much of his original text, which lacked any stage direction. This is precisely why Taymor succeeds where other directors have failed: although she does feel free to invent on her own just as Shakespeare did, her invention is not in any way at odds with his. Her work does not second-guess Titus Andronicus or steal its fire; it expounds on it and creates...
...earliest, the first his works to gain him wide recognition and the first to be published. Although it concerns a web of revenge and desire that eventually involves murder, rape, insanity and fake insanity, cannibalism, torture and the on-screen severing of virtually every body part imaginable, this version intelligently focuses not on violence and revenge themselves, but on how people respond to it. So although virtually every character is involved in one act of violence or another, the motivation of the act itself remains particularly personal...
Forbes went first, giving a slightly modified version of his standard stump speech. Then came McCain, who tried to make news by lambasting Sen. Bill Bradley and Vice President Al Gore '69 for their views on the gays in the military policy. After George W. Bush finished speaking, his handlers made a strategic decision. They decided to leave, right then and there, for the campaign hotel, about 25 minutes away in Manchester...