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- Dendron Town Council candidates reluctant to publish phone numbers - Daily Press
- Still crazy for Patsy Cline - Boston Globe
- Shakespeare biographies: the good, the Bard and the ... - The Guardian
| Dendron Town Council candidates reluctant to publish phone numbers - Daily Press Posted: 10 Apr 2010 06:01 AM PDT Some Dendron Town Council candidates are reluctant to publish their telephone numbers because several town leaders say they have received harassing phone calls related to a proposed coal-fueled power plant. "I was getting threatening calls and hang-ups at all hours before the vote was taken," said Mayor Yvonne Pierce, one of several incumbents who didn't want her phone number listed when the Daily Press requested information for election biographies. In February, the council approved land-use permits that would allow Old Dominion Electric Cooperative to build the $6 billion power plant in Dendron if federal and state regulatory agencies sign off on it. The proposal sparked a firestorm of controversy, and has created a division in the once-close knit community. Several council members — mostly power plant supporters — reported receiving similar calls and less frequently, vandalism to their property in the months before the council's vote, Pierce said. The most serious incident came the day after the rezoning was approved, when Councilwoman LaRita Pierce woke up to find a machete in her front yard. The county sheriff's office investigated, but there were no arrests. Three of five incumbents and one other candidate have declined to publish phone numbers. Incumbent Misti Furr said her decision is strictly because her only line is a personal cell phone. The candidates say they don't believe it makes any of them less accessible to the 300 residents of Dendron. Home numbers for most current council members are available in the local phone directory, said incumbent Ruth Sheffield, who agreed to have her number published. Mayor Pierce says her cell phone number is posted in the window of town hall. "Most of us were born and raised in this town ... and we all live within walking distance of everybody in town," Pierce said. "Anyone in Dendron who wants to reach me knows how to do it." Follow breaking Isle of Wight County news at twitter.com/DP-Isle of Wight
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| Still crazy for Patsy Cline - Boston Globe Posted: 10 Apr 2010 07:35 AM PDT And let's not discount the timelessness of Cline's voice, as rich and heavy as honey, operatic yet masterfully controlled. Beyond that, though, the casual fan probably can't tell you even the basics, like where Cline was born (Virginia), her birth name (Virginia Patterson Hensley), or her age when she died (30). Particularly when compared to today's singers, it's remarkable that Cline could convey heartache like someone who had lived a lifetime. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Shakespeare biographies: the good, the Bard and the ... - The Guardian Posted: 06 Apr 2010 04:12 AM PDT  Bard romance: Shakespeare in Love … big on the literal-minded tendency. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive James Shapiro's Contested Will concentrates on the lunatic fringe of Shakespeare authorship theories – a fascinating topic, to be sure, if you admire snobbery, philistinism and ignorance. But as it happens, Shakespeare biography is now (at least) 300 years old, and there have been plenty of bemusing, eccentric or downright surreal contributions to the field, even among those biographers who don't think Shakespeare was the Earl of Oxford. Crackpot theorising, outright fantasising and expressions of superimposed vanity (Shakespeare, c'est moi!) are all part of the fun. Take the following examples, for example: attempts at writing the ultimate writer's life, good, bad, indifferent, ugly, or just plain delusional. Further suggestions/angry objections welcome. John Aubrey According to Aubrey's Brief Lives, that fine blend of antiquarian notes and 17th-century table talk, Shakespeare's father was a butcher. When he was a boy, "he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech". Shakespeare was a schoolteacher for a while and taught Latin (no doubts there about Shakespeare's linguistic abilities). "His comedies will remain wit as long as the English tongue is understood." Nicholas Rowe The business of Shakespeare biography gets going with Rowe, the poet laureate and playwright who (correct me if I'm wrong) gave the English language the word "Lothario". Rowe prefaced his 1709 edition of Shakespeare's Works with a short biography that was reissued last year to mark its 300th anniversary. Marvellously wide of the mark on most matters of fact, it's full of praise for the plays. Rowe sees Shylock in The Merchant of Venice as a serious rather than a buffoonish part, which is how it was acted at the time, and defends Shakespeare against general critical prejudices. The young Shakespeare was a deer-poacher. Getting caught led directly to his move – his escape – into the theatre business. The great 19th-century scholar was also a great forger. Some of his inventions were simply single words added to existing documents; on other occasions, he simply made up evidence and presented it, humbly declining to take credit for the discovery, as material for scholarly consideration. Did a ballad that happened to mention King Priam, "False Cressid" and "loving Troylus" refer to Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida? With mock cautiousness, Collier conceded that it could allude to "a different play on the same subject". Another ballad had Marlowe breaking his leg while acting on the stage of the Curtain theatre. Collier later came to repent it all bitterly. Frank Harris AL Rowse Perhaps Rowse, the Oxford historian who wrote several books relating to Shakespeare, is not so remarkable for what he thought as for the attitude that carried him along, brushing aside all objections to his "decoding" of Shakespeare's Sonnets. He told a newspaper in 1963: "I am prepared to stake my reputation as an Elizabethan scholar on the claim that all the problems of the Sonnets save one – the identity of Shakespeare's mistress, the Dark Lady – are susceptible of solution, and that I have solved them". Ten years later, he'd solved the one remaining problem, too: the Dark Lady was the poet Emilia Lanier. "This is she! This is the Lady!" Never mind that it's not even clear that Lanier was a dark lady, let alone the Dark Lady – or indeed, whether or not there was a real Dark Lady at all. My goodness, what if Shakespeare actually made the whole thing up? Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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