Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Djanet Sears" ¶ 1
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Her and play
Her name is an anagram of Grundy ( from Mrs. Grundy, a character in Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough ).
Her first appearance on the stage was at Haymarket in 1755 as Miranda in Mrs Centlivre's play, Busybody.
Her nudity is not addressed throughout the rest of the play, so it cannot be determined whether she retrieved her robe and covered herself or discarded her clothing entirely to appear fully nude when presenting herself before Paris.
Her expressions when her lover dumps her, during the course of the play, proves what a magnificent actress she is.
His latest play to receive wide acclaim is For The Pleasure Of Seeing Her Again, a funny and nostalgic play, centered on the memories of his mother.
Her three act play, " The Whipping " was optioned by Paramount Studios, but never made into a film.
The development of the British constitution, which is not a codified document, is based on this fusion in the person of the Monarch, who has a formal role to play in the legislature ( Parliament, which is where legal and political sovereignty lies, is the Crown-in-Parliament, and is summoned and dissolved by the Sovereign who must give his or her Royal Assent to all Bills so that they become Acts ), the executive ( the Sovereign appoints all ministers of His / Her Majesty's Government, who govern in the name of the Crown ) and the judiciary ( the Sovereign, as the fount of justice, appoints all senior judges, and all public prosecutions are brought in his or her name ).
Howard Brenton's play Hitler Dances caused some controversy by depicting Szabo as more of a real and vulnerable woman, rather than the heroic, patriotic archetype of Carve Her Name with Pride.
* April 19 – Bertolt Brecht's anti-war play Mother Courage and Her Children () receives its first theatrical production at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.
Her nominations include a 1996 Drama Desk Award for Northeast Local and Tony nominations for Butterflies Are Free ( play ), Invitation to a March, and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.
Her performance at one club impressed a theatrical producer, and he cast her in a play in New York, but that production did not open.
Her thesis was on Ben Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair.
Her post-war theatre credits included Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest again at the Haymarket Theatre in 1946 and Lady Bracknell when the same play transferred to New York in 1947.
Her life becomes entwined with theirs as she cares for Rosa during her pregnancy and works for Huma as her personal assistant and even acts in the play as an understudy for Nina during one of her drug abuse crises.
Her image was considered with more care ; although she continued to play character roles, she was often filmed in close-ups that emphasized her distinctive eyes.
Her film choices were often unconventional ; she sought roles as manipulators and killers in an era when actresses usually preferred to play sympathetic characters, and she excelled in them.
Her mastery is unparalleled when it comes to the seduction of certain powerful individuals, but popular criticism supports the notion that " as far as Cleopatra is concerned, the main thrust of the play's action might be described as a machine especially devised to bend her to the Roman will ... and no doubt Roman order is sovereign at the end of the play.
Her conclusion was that the evidence testified to an ancient Celtic festival on 1 August that involved the following: solemn cutting of the first of the corn of which an offering would be made to the deity by bringing it up to a high place and burying it ; a meal of the new food and of bilberries of which everyone must partake ; a sacrifice of a sacred bull, a feast of its flesh, with some ceremony involving its hide, and its replacement by a young bull ; a ritual dance-play perhaps telling of a struggle for a goddess and a ritual fight ; an installation of a head on top of the hill and a triumphing over it by an actor impersonating Lugh ; another play representing the confinement by Lugh of the monster blight or famine ; a three-day celebration presided over by the brilliant young god or his human representative.
* Tori Amos song " Bells for Her " has her play a prepared piano.
Her character was originally written as a sarcastic and sharp-tongued temptress, but Louise argued that this was too extreme and refused to play it as written.
Her stage work remained a priority and continued with Ann Veronica ( Piccadilly, 1949 ), which was another collaboration with Gow, who wrote the play with his wife as leading lady.
Her first stage appearance was when her mother brought her on stage in costume for the curtain call of the short-lived Broadway play The Leaf People.
Her critics, especially Walter White of the NAACP, claimed that she and other actors who agreed to play to stereotypes were not a neutral force, but rather were willing agents of black oppression.
Her book " Toys and Playthings, " ( ISBN 0-394-42830-7 ) discusses the effect of play on child development.

Her and Harlem
Her book Daughters of the Dust: A Novel ( 1997 ) is a sequel to the film, set 20 years later in Harlem and the Sea Islands.
Her tap dancing skills led to an opportunity to study with one of the best-known tap dancers in the country, Savion Glover of the Dance Theater of Harlem, when he came to Washington D. C. for a workshop.
In the Jazz Age and during the 1930s, " all-girl " bands such as The Blue Belles, the Parisian Redheads ( later the Bricktops ), Lil-Hardin's All-Girl Band, The Ingenues, The Harlem Playgirls, Phil Spitalny's Musical Sweethearts and " Helen Lewis and Her All-Girl Jazz Syncopators " were popular.
Her public viewing was at the Unity Funeral Home in Harlem, the same place where Malcolm X's viewing had taken place 32 years earlier.
Her life in Harlem was very exciting, and she befriended the future scholar and activist John Henrik Clarke and the future writer and civil rights lawyer Pauli Murray, and many others who would become lifelong friends.
Her daughter Liz explained to the Washington Post that “ her way of dealing with the problem was to write this book, which maybe was something that people who had grown up in Harlem couldn ’ t do .”
Her group grew into a Harlem lesbian organization known as " The Cement Mixers ".
Her first dancing gig was at " Small's Paradise " in Harlem.
Her works reflected the shared themes and motifs of the Harlem Renaissance.
Her column, The Ebony Flute, was Bennett's link to the Harlem cultural and social life.
Her work during this period of her life was praised by her fellow writers in Harlem.
Her covers gender-shift some of the lyrics of “ Spanish Harlem ”.
Her recordings saw Brown backed by some of the best Harlem based musicians of the time.

Her and Duet
" Her musical collaborations with composer Ezra Laderman which had begun in 1956 with Duet for Flute and Dancer, inspired by Erdman's interpretation of Debussy's solo flute composition Syrinx in her 1948 solo Hamadryad and culminating in the 1957 group work Harlequinade, featuring dancer Donald McKayle, were the subject of a feature story in Time Magazine in April 1957.
Her many television appearances include the 1980 miniseries Flickers alongside Bob Hoskins, the TV version of Duet for One, the series A Kind of Living, Tom Jones, episodes of Poirot, Marple and Waking the Dead.

Her and won
According to Ben Pimlott, biographer of Queen Elizabeth II, the Aga Khan presented Her Majesty with a filly called Astrakhan, who won at Hurst Park Racecourse in 1950.
Her 1995 re-recording of " I Will Always Love You " ( performed as a duet with Vince Gill ), from her album Something Special won the Country Music Association's Vocal Event of the Year Award for Parton and Gill.
Her ambition, personal wit and cleverness won her a distinguished position in society, in spite of her humble origin.
Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.
In 2000, Encore une fois, si vous le permettez ( For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again ) won a Chalmers Award and a Dora Mavor Moore Award.
Her retirement coincided with the ending of her party's federal parliamentary representation ; the Democrats ' support had collapsed after 2002 and they won no seats at the 2004 and 2007 half-senate elections.
Her novel The Farthest Shore won the 1973 National Book Award in category Children's Books.
Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).
Her performance won her a Youth In Film Award.
Her outstanding performance won her the attention of producers, who cast her in a series of films.
Her portrayal of main antagonist Cathy Ames won her a Golden Globe.
Hawn is known for her roles in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Shampoo, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Her second book, A Way of Looking, won the Somerset Maugham award and marked a turning point, as the prize money allowed her to spend nearly three months in Rome, which was a revelation.
Her next event was the 2000 Australian Open, which she won in singles without the loss of a set.
Her performance won her her first Academy Award nomination.
Her early films cast her as the girl-next-door but for most of the Pre-Code film era beginning with the 1930 film The Divorcee, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress, she played sexually liberated women in sophisticated contemporary comedies.
Her performance won her widespread acclaim ; Hal Hinson of the Washington Post saw Pfeiffer's role as " the least obvious and the most difficult.
Her environmentalism has been especially well received ; several episodes featuring her have won Genesis and Environmental Media Awards, including a special " Board of Directors Ongoing Commitment Award " in 2001.
Her aristocratic manners and artistic integrity won her the titles " Queen of the Neva " and " Soul of the Silver Age ," as the period came to be known in the history of Russian poetry.
Her first year back she won eight of eighteen events, but the following year she won every event she entered, a total of twenty-two races.
Her role as the grand Russian princess in a huge commercial success, Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ), won her international acclaim and the Evening Standard British Film Award as Best Actress.
Her big break came in 1983 when she was cast by Martin Scorsese to star as stalker and kidnapper Masha in the film The King of Comedy for which she won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland ( 31 August 1872 – 23 May 1968 ; aged 95 ), was a patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and her mother, Lilian Augusta ( née Ruse ; 11 June 1886 – 20 February 1975 ; aged 88 ) was a stage actress who had left her career after going to Tokyo with her husband – she would return to work after her daughters had already won fame in the 40s, with the stage name of Lillian Fontaine.
Her victory won her the respect and admiration of her peers, among them her own sister Joan Fontaine, who later commented, " Hollywood owes Olivia a great deal ".

0.460 seconds.