Fascist hierarcs visit Alfa Romeo

A move to Alfa Romeo in 1984 delivered two lacklustre seasons resulting in eight world championship points and a single visit to the podium at his home Grand Prix.

* In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet the character Nurse had been Juliet's wet nurse.

Macbeth's " Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow " speech and Juliet's " O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

( Juliet's speech is overheard by Romeo, but because she believes herself to be alone, her speech is still considered a soliloquy.

Through Underwood's connections with Dick O ' Dell, then manager of The Slits and head of Y Records, they landed their first gig, supporting The Slits at Romeo and Juliet's in Bristol.

Nursie is a caricature of the doting nursery maid or nanny, who at the drop of a hat launches into long disquisitions on her charge's brilliance and wit, and intended as a parody of Juliet's Nurse in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, as the nurse also admits to being something of a fool, proclaiming, " were not I thine only nurse, I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat.

However, Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt, as Tybalt is Juliet's cousin and therefore his kinsman.

While acting in Romeo and Juliet he met John Kielty ( Sneddon was Romeo and John played Juliet's father ).

It should be noted however that in some editions, Benvolio was prematurely killed by Paris at Juliet's tomb in V ( before Paris himself is killed by Romeo ).

A mock-Victorian revisionist version of Romeo and Juliet's final scene ( with a happy ending, Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio and Paris restored to life, and Benvolio revealing that he is Paris's love, Benvolia, in disguise ) forms part of the 1980 stage-play The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

Fretts said that redoing Romeo and Juliet in a modern setting was nothing new but that having Romeo's father be a district attorney going after Juliet's porn-king father was original enough that " methinks Shakespeare would approve.

* The story's title comes from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ; the complete line is " He jests at scars that never felt a wound ", spoken by Romeo immediately prior to Juliet's balcony entrance in the famous balcony scene, and before Romeo's well-known line " But, soft!

* Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, in her late nineties, reciting Juliet's death scene from Romeo and Juliet, a role she had first performed over eighty years ago.

In 1968 her movie debut at the age of 36 was as Juliet's nurse in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo then enters in Juliet's clothing, but Constance leaves before he can woo her.

Romeo, who is still in Juliet's clothes, has fallen for Desdemona.

" He makes one final pun before he dies: " Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man ...." A grief-stricken and enraged Romeo kills Tybalt, thus leading to Romeo's banishment from Verona and beginning the tragic turn of events that make up the rest of the play.

Clint Black's album " Nothin ' but the Taillights " includes the song " Ode to Chet ," which includes the lines "' Cause I can win her over like Romeo did Juliet, if I can only show her I can almost pick that legato lick like Chet " and " It'll take more than Mel Bay 1, 2, & 3 if I'm ever gonna play like CGP.

Indeed, Sir Toby in Twelfth Night is seen saying, in reference to Sir Andrew's hair, that " it hangs like flax on a distaff ; and I hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs and spin it off ;" the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet says that her husband had told Juliet when she was learning to walk that " Yea, dost thou fall upon thy face?

In both stories, Tybalt attacks the peace-pleading Romeo with such force that he is forced to take up the sword to defend himself.

When Farina was forced to retire due to overheating problems, Fangio was left as the sole Alfa Romeo able to take the fight to the Ferrari drivers.

The novels take as a template sequences and tropes from Shakespeare's plays Othello, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet

In 2011, the National Ballet of Canada premiered a new choreography of Romeo and Juliet by Alexei Ratmansky in Toronto, with plans to take it on tour in Western Canada in early 2012.

The show is a modern-day take on the Romeo and Juliet story.

Speaking about his brother's vision for the country, Robert Kennedy famously quoted from Romeo and Juliet: When he shall die, take him and cut him out into the stars, and he shall make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.

Ángel Aníbal Guevara, hand-picked successor of previous president Romeo Lucas García, was declared the winner of the presidential election and was scheduled to take office on 1 July.

In the same year Alfa Romeo, one of the leading players in the sport, stated that they might not participate in further Grands Prix, leaving only two other major teams, Ferrari and a temporarily uncompetitive Maserati, leading the race organisers of Formula One to wonder who would take Alfa Romeo's place.

Among his other memorable film roles in the 1960s were as the well-intentioned Friar Laurence in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet and as the villainous Dr. Durand Durand ( who tries to kill Jane Fonda's character by making her literally die of pleasure ) in Roger Vadim's counterculture classic Barbarella ( both films were released in 1968 ).

For example, in Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio curses both his friends and enemies when he realizes he is about to die, just as in Idlewild, Mercutio goes after both the clods and the pets.

A few cars, notably the Alfa Romeo Alfetta, Porsche 924, and Chevrolet Corvette ( since 1997 ), sought a more even weight distribution between front and back by placing the weight of the transmission at the rear of the car, combined with the rear axle to form a transaxle.

Reciting lines from Romeo and Juliet, she tests the blade with one hand to see its retraction and plunges the fake blade into her chest and acts out a death scene.

" Since Juliet was born Lammas eve, she came before the harvest festival, which is significant since her life ended before she could reap what she had sown and enjoy the bounty of the harvest, in this case full consummation and enjoyment of her love with Romeo.

The MX-5 was conceived as a small roadster – with light weight and minimal mechanical complexity limited only by legal and safety requirements ; technologically modern, but a philosophically direct descendant of small British and Italian roadsters of the 1960s such as the Triumph Spitfire, MG MGB, Fiat 124 Sport Spider, Alfa Romeo Spider and Lotus Elan.

All references to Romeo and Juliet, unless otherwise specified, are taken from the Arden Shakespeare second edition ( Gibbons, 1980 ) based on the Q2 text of 1599, with elements from Q1 of 1597.

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He enjoyed some success there – notably with Lieutenant Kijé, Peter and the Wolf, Romeo and Juliet, and perhaps above all with Alexander Nevsky.

Fury of Johnny Kid follows Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, but ( again ) with a different ending – the loving couple leave together while their families annihilate each other.

* Romeo and Juliet starts out with a street fight between the Montagues and Capulets ; the Jets and the Sharks have a similar fight.

The company that became Alfa Romeo was founded as Società Anonima Italiana Darracq ( SAID ) in 1906 by the French automobile firm of Alexandre Darracq, with some Italian investors.

In 1920, the name of the company was changed to Alfa Romeo with the Torpedo 20-30 HP becoming the first car to be badged as such.

In 1928 Nicola Romeo left, with Alfa going broke after defense contracts ended, and at the end of 1932 Alfa Romeo was rescued by Benito Mussolini's government, which then had effective control.

The company that became Alfa Romeo was founded as Società Anonima Italiana Darracq ( SAID ) in 1906 by the French automobile firm of Alexandre Darracq, with some Italian investors.

After Alfa Romeo officially left Grand Prix racing, Nuvolari stayed on with Scuderia Ferrari who ran the Alfa Romeo cars semi-officially.

Nuvolari ( fifth from left ), with other Alfa Romeo drivers and Enzo Ferrari.

After drawing ninth place on the grid at the Italian Grand Prix, Nuvolari started the race in an Alfa Romeo shared with Baconin Borzacchini.

Alfa Romeo announced that for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Nuvolari would be competing in a team with Raymond Sommer.

Nuvolari stayed with Alfa Romeo despite becoming increasingly frustrated with the poor build quality of their racing cars.

One of his earliest plays was the Roman tragedy Titus Andronicus, which he followed a few years later with Romeo and Juliet.

Patrese and team mate, American Eddie Cheever, were hampered by cars with Alfa Romeo V8 turbo engines that proved too thirsty for the amount of fuel they were allowed to carry.