Like Shakespeare, Plautus is especially fond of making up and changing the meaning of words.

* Matt Monro – Singer ( Born Terence Parsons on December 1, 1930 ) Dubbed " The singers singer " and " The British Sinatra ") Famous for singing the James Bond theme " From Russia with Love " and " On Days Like These " from the film " The Italian job ".

Since working with Terence Fixmer, he has lent his unique vocals to collaborations with Motor, Kloq, Warren Suicide, a duet with Sarah " Client B " Blackwood on Client's " Suicide Sister ", and Die Krupps on another reworking of “ Wahre Arbeit Wahrer Lohn .” Homotronic's ironic " U Look Like a Gay " also features an uncredited performance from McCarthy.

lang, Joni Mitchell, Meshell Ndegeocello, Pearl Jam, Terence Trent D ' arby, Lisa Germano, Lisa Marie Presley, Liz Phair, Michael Penn, Grace Jones, Tricky, The Three O ' Clock, Uh Huh Her, Sheryl Crow, Victoria Williams, Rob Thomas, Gwen Stefani, Skye Edwards, Scritti Politti, Nerina Pallot, OK Go, Madonna, The Like, Nina Gordon, fDeluxe, The Family, Doyle Bramhall II, Nikka Costa, Andre Cymone, Kate Earl, Eric Clapton, Bettye LaVette and more and vocals on the soundtrack for Toys and their first scoring work, for Dangerous Minds.

Like most primitive, but unlike all previously recognized hominins, it had a grasping or big toe adapted for locomotion in the trees.

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

Like with Tyrannosaurus, the maxillary ( cheek ) teeth of Albertosaurus were adapted in general form to resist lateral forces exerted by a struggling prey.

Like all Greek forms, elegy was adapted by the Romans for their own literature.

A few have been filmed ( in some cases rather freely adapted ): Consider Her Ways, Random Quest, Dumb Martian, Jizzle ( filmed as Maria ) and Time to Rest ( filmed as No Place Like Earth ).

Like many bunraku plays, it was adapted for kabuki, and it spawned many imitators — in fact, it and similar plays reportedly caused so many real-life " copycat " suicides that the government banned shinju mono ( plays about lovers ' double suicides ) in 1723.

Like many other Protea species, P. cynaroides is adapted to an environment in which bushfires are essential for reproduction and regeneration.

Like many of the first mammals they have adapted to a nocturnal, insectivorous way of life.

His cautionary fables include " The Beautiful People " ( 1952 ), a futuristic short story about a rebellious adolescent girl who lives in a largely conformist society in which people obligatorily alter their physical appearance ( adapted as an episode of The Twilight Zone: " Number 12 Looks Just Like You "), and " Free Dirt " ( 1955 ), about a frugally gluttonous man who gorges on his entire vegetable harvest, but instead dies from having consumed the magical soil he used to grow it.

While in college playing together at local Christian coffee houses, Jars gained quite a reputation for their very original arrangement of " Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer " which had been deftly adapted to the tune of Nirvana's " Smells Like Teen Spirit ".

Like other Xerophytes, Marram Grass is well adapted to its surroundings in order to thrive in an otherwise harsh environment.

Like other archaic poets, Mimnermus adapted myths to his own artistic needs and Aelian recorded that he attributed twenty children to Niobe, unlike Homer, for example, who attributed twelve to her.

And John Duttine played David Powlett-Jones in BBC TV's To Serve Them All My Days ( 1980 ), adapted by Andrew Davies from the eponymous novel and as Archie Carver in London Weekend Television's People Like Us ( 1977 ), adapted from the Avenue novels.

Like many other starling species it has also adapted readily to human-modified habitat, including farmland, orchards, plantations and urban areas.

* Charles Johnson-Love in a Forest ( adapted from As You Like It )

Like most manga series that have been adapted to anime, there are several changes that occur in both timelines of the Speed Racer ( Mach GoGoGo ) series.

Like most dramatists of the period he adapted as well as he could to changing tastes ; however, even his work in the fashionable Jacobean genres of satire and tragicomedy bears the marks of his Elizabethan training: its humor is genial, its action romantic.

Like other pop artists, Rosenquist adapted the visual language of advertising and pop culture ( often funny, vulgar, and outrageous ) to the context of fine art.

Like other sea turtles, the leatherback has flattened forelimbs adapted for swimming in the open ocean.

Like all woodpeckers, this species has a specially adapted neck containing very strong muscles, which allow it to endlessly hack away at tree bark.

Like its predecessor Watership Down, Martin Rosen directed and adapted The Plague Dogs into an animated feature film, which was released in 1982.

The novel was adapted to film in 1956 as A Town Like Alice.

Like most of the other Greek leaders, Ajax is alive and well as the Iliad comes to a close.

Like the term " tyrant " ( which was originally a respectable Ancient Greek title ), and to a lesser degree " autocrat ", " dictator " came to be used almost exclusively as a non-titular term for oppressive, even abusive rule, yet had rare modern titular uses.

Like their Greek predecessors, classical Latin poets avoided a large number of word breaks at the ends of foot divisions except between the fourth and fifth, where it was encouraged.

Like many other Greek mathematical treatises, Diophantus was forgotten in Western Europe during the so-called Dark Ages, since the study of ancient Greek had greatly declined.

Like other Greek letters, it could face either leftwards or rightwards ( x14pxx14px ), depending on the current writing direction, but just like in Phoenician, the horizontal bars always faced in the direction of writing.

Like Democritus, he was an atomist, believing that the fundamental constituents of the world were indivisible little bits of matter ( atoms, Greek atomos, indivisible ) flying through empty space ( kenos ).

Like Athena, Minerva was born from the head of her father, Jupiter ( Greek Zeus ).

Like most Greek temples, the Parthenon was used as a treasury.

Like US-International, UK-Extended does not cater for many languages written with Latin characters, including Romanian and Turkish, or any using different character sets such as Greek and Russian.

Like its cognates Welsh hêl, heledd ‘ river meadow ’ and Greek ( hélos ) ‘ swamp ’, the Rigvedic term refers mostly to stagnant waters, and Mayrhofer considers unlikely a connection with the root * ‘ run, flow ’.

Like other native Greek Catholics, they celebrate Easter using the same calendar as the Greek Orthodox church.

Like Saturday ( Savato, Σάββατο ) and Sunday, ( Kiriaki, Κυριακή ), Friday is named for its liturgical significance, as the day of preparation before Sabbath, which was inherited by Greek Christian Orthodox culture from Jewish practices.

Like many Greek city states, Taras issued its own coins in the 5th and 4th centuries B. C.

Like most Greek colonies, the city was a small enclave of Greek life, and not an empire unto its own, in the later European sense of the word.

Like the tragic protagonists of Greek drama, the Greek athlete had a " larger than life " quality.

Like much Roman comedy, it is probably translated from an earlier Greek original, most commonly held to be Philemon's Long Night, or Rhinthon's Amphitryon, both now lost.

Like Ishtar, the Greek Aphrodite and Northwestern Semitic Astarte were love goddesses who were " as cruel as they were wayward ".

Like most of the Greek islands, Euboea was originally known under other names in ancient times, such as Macris and Doliche from its shape, Ellopia and Abantis from the tribes inhabiting it.

Like most of the Titans he played no active part in Greek religion — he appears only in lists of Titans — but was primarily important for his descendants.