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Nesting BOTTLE HOLDER Wine Matryoshka MAGIC HORSE [The top part of this clever bottle "cathedral" is an "onion dome," the traditional architecture for a Russian church. Like a matryoshka, it opens up in the middle, allowing you to put a bottle of wine inside, and the top is detachable for easy pouring. A great gift for festive occasions!] [This item is practical and make an ideal gift. It is also an original Russian folk art, a unique expression of national culture, and this also contributes to its growing fame. Today`s russian craftsmen are reviving generations of experience in the art of carving and painting wood. Anyone who has seen this item cannot fail to be impressed. Gracefully austere in form, yet rich in decoration, these modest article is genuine work of art]
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The top part of this clever bottle "cathedral" is an "onion dome," the traditional architecture for a Russian church. Like a matryoshka, it opens up in the middle, allowing you to put a bottle of wine inside, and the top is detachable for easy pouring. A great gift for festive occasions! This item is practical and make an ideal gift. It is also an original Russian folk art, a unique expression of national culture, and this also contributes to its growing fame. Today`s russian craftsmen are reviving generations of experience in the art of carving and painting wood. Anyone who has seen this item cannot fail to be impressed. Gracefully austere in form, yet rich in decoration, these modest article is genuine work of art. The Humpbacked Horse (konyok-gorbunok), sometimes known in English as The Magic Horse or The Little Magic Horse, is a version of a common fairy-tale character Golden-Maned Steed, although a large part of the plot of this story is based on Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf. The little horse helps Ivan, a peasants son, carry out many unreasonable demands of the tsar. During his adventures Ivan gets the beautiful magic firebird for the tsar, keeps his magic horse and finds his love (princess Yelena the Beautiful). At the end the princess and the peasants son live happily for many years after. Censors banned the complete story for over 20 years in the mid-19th century because it made the Tsar appear foolish. Until 1856 the tale was published with dots representing omitted sections, instead of many verses and even songs. It is meant to be a satire on the absurdities of Russian feudal and bureaucratic life at the time. Now it is considered just a classical children's fairy tale.

Austere Command RARE #003 - Magic the Gathering Lorwyn

Choose two - Destroy all artifacts; or destroy all enchantments; or destroy all creatures with converted mana cost 3 or less; or destroy all creatures with converted mana cost 4 or greater.

King Lear
$19.95
One school of cinema says you start a scene in the middle and end it before the action ends. This we see here. Shakespeare snipped.

I hope and pray the coming Pacino production respects the text, and uses the Quarto written for the King's original Saint Stephen's Day production, not the naked later Folio version edited for groundlings and a later censorious King who did not like astrology mocked. Shakespeare of course ducked the divine prohibition by setting this in pre-Christian Britain. I hope the Pacino version might use the full conflated text as developed by Professor Tucker Brookes in the great The Tragedy Of King Lear (The Yale Shakespeare).

But I have not so much faith in present scholarship and literacy.

Here in this presentation with Ian Holm we have the streamlined, aerodynamic version, which loses far too much in its editing for "efficiency" and modern dramatic theory.

It's all about Lear; we lose the Fool, as did Nahum Tate, but not as much.

This Fool by the way is EXCELLENT, and absolutely correct, the best actor of this and the best Fool of any other filmed . The elderly Lear would neither care for nor even recall a recently arrived "boy" but a longstanding companion like Kent he would dearly recall as part of his psychological make-up, his counselor and medic, as he enters the dark night of dissonance and discord and madness. This is the excellent Fool; unfortunately most of his lines are removed in this express edition.

We also lose the great and long lines of Kent in response to Oswald asking "What do you know me for?" a marvelous and varied response here lost entirely.

Of course no British production permits the wonderful lines: "Fee, Fi, Fo, fum! I smell the blood of a British Man!" which we are only permitted to hear in video recording in Joe Papp's excellent Shakespeare in the Park production filmed live in 1974 with a young and virile Raul Julia as Edmund, and the greatest American Shakespearean actor, Mr. James Earle Jones. This Joe Papp production has the finest edition of the text ever played, as the most comprehensive recorded in any media. No problem. Great actors, and great staging (even if Paul Sorvino was having an off night). The staging makes great sense of lines which otherwise lack clear context. For instance, when the Fool is saying the lines with Halter, Daughter, Slaughter, etc. he is stealing food from the table avoidng her wrath, after she had found him hiding under the table rather than following the King (a great wheel rolling downhill).

In this Ian Holm production, the old Fool remains at the table until driven off, trying to win favor from Albany in order to get a new patron than the mad King, a good choice and true. But then the whole daughter, slaughter, halter bit is cut, and we lose much.

Olivier cut John Hurt's excellent fool and the Ian Holm production cuts this excellent and properly, equally elderly Fool, for some the one character as essential to the play as a Greek Chorus in Euripides, as essential as a good, wise and trusted friend to a great man losing his grip. It is a serious fault to cut him off.

We may doubt the Fool in Joe Papp in some few aspects, but at least he has all of his lines, and expresses them more or less properly, including the most bawdy ones. We are blessed by the Joe Papp production; it is the best we have. It is the one we must see to know the fullness of Shakespeare's Historical Chronicle of King Lear. Rene of the impossible last name is EXCELLENT as Edgar, the best in any production, and plays especially well off Raul Julio's half brother Edmund, and off Gloucester, even as Sorvino fails. I can not speak highly enough about this marvelous production, full of life and reality and of course as a live staged presentation, broad theatrical gestures and costuming and projection despite the clip on mikes (including one strapped around the naked Edgar). Once our government sponsored such free and sophisticated and top notch professional and scholarly theatre in Central Park; may we return soon to this former glory.

I therefore advise you to get at all costs the Joe Papp version at King Lear / Jones, New York Shakespeare Festival (Broadway Theatre Archive) and to skip over this unfortunately seriously, tragically abridged Ian Holm production.