When I heard he'd died, the first thing that popped into my mind as I sat behind the wheel was those cheesy Chrysler Cordoba ads from the 1970s in which [Ricardo Montalban], in his trademark rich Latin accent, extolled the car's upholstery for its -- and anyone my age knows exactly what's coming -- "soft Corinthian leather. Apparently there was no such thing as "Corinthian leather," but we didn't care, young people. Back then, we all wanted this stuff in our cars, and we all wandered around, pretending to be Latin, parroting Montalban's ultra-smooth delivery, trying to impress girls by telling them that the tacky cloth seats in our 1972 Dodge Dart were actually "fine or rich (OK, the word was "soft" but everyone got it wrong) Corinthian leather." That's about it, young people. Forgive ...
At the time it was built, from 1911 to 1913, this main Winnipeg branch shared a corporate style with others across Canada. The Bank of Montreal preferred a classical look with Corinthian columns, large entablatures and pediments, and little adornment. Accordingly, the branch at Portage and Main looks like Scrooge McDuck's money bin built as a Roman temple. Above the colonnade the bank's name is proclaimed with the power and permanence of chiseled stone. The gold in the ceiling was valued at about $1 million in 1980. "It's worth considerably more than that now," says Dave Gemmell, the executive assistant at the bank. But he also suggests that is a small amount considering the whole of the building. Municipally designated as a heritage structure, the bank exudes such permanence that neith...
When he dumps her for a younger, yellow-haired wife in a marriage of convenience with the daughter of Corinthian King Creon, the unhinged Medea broods bitterly while "building an Acropolis of deadly thoughts." That she will earn her sick justice there is no doubt, but [Seana McKenna] raises some question early in the 100-minute production as to whether Medea is a victim or a monster. The answer is known long before the bloody climax after she sends glittering but enchanted gifts to [Jason]'s new bride and awaits news from her nurse about their effect. Medea sits at her traumatized nurse's feet like she is to be told some fairy tale. When the nurse hesitates, Medea thunders, "I want all. Director Miles Potter, who also helmed the 1992 Warehouse version with his wife McKenna in the titl...
... FIRST CENTURY, WHEN PAUL wrote to the Corinthian Christians about the church as "one body with many...
Another attraction of HardSell is its determined ambition to enter the shady world of marketing and to take a fun stroll through Uncle [Artie]'s jumbled brain, which is littered with commercial jingles and buzzwords. He confides that there was no such thing as fine Corinthian leather and that actor Morgan Freeman is advertising's premiere pitch-man, the voice of credibility. No one escapes his hard-hearted cynical shots; not show sponsor BMO Financial Group, and not host Manitoba Theatre Centre. [Rick Miller], a Toronto actor, has also wrapped himself in technology -- including a video camera and a giant rear screen -- that boosts the visual impact of HardSell. The show's parting image of the seller in the cell captures the essence of HardSell.
...Thanks to Banderas and his Corinthian-leather purr and writers who know how to use it, t...
...Thanks to Banderas and his Corinthian-leather purr and writers who know how to use it, t...
Happy Days is a typical absurdist drama written by Samuel Beckett. It is extreme in its use of symbols, comedic in its tone, and devastating in its implications. Structurally, it has much in common with Prometheus Bound, one of the oldest Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus. However, Happy Days is still considered Beckett's extreme exploration on how much the theatre can do without and still be a theatre. This essay focuses on the similarities and differences between Happy Days and Prometheus Bound, and aims at finding the unique artistic feature of Happy Days.
... condition to that of the mythological Corinthian king Sisyphus, who, because of his cruelty, was co...
...Thanks to Banderas and his Corinthian-leather purr and writers who know how to use it, t...
... and its parent company, see www.corinthiancollege.com. First, programs at CDI and other similar coll...
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