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...She puts a swarm of visual ideas and movement on stage; it’s a treat for the eyes that underlines the drama — but doesn’t add anything....
...We later read that King Herod had put out an order to kill all the male children under two years old....
...There are probably several lessons in this place, but I guess the main one is: don’t poke your nose into other people’s relationships. Herod Antipas had married his brother’s wife....
...bear a child, I’m a virgin”) and a seductress in Herod’s palace....
...”; at Nureyev’s farewell in 1991, dancers “wore the uneasy expressions of people who sense that the oysters weren’t quite as fresh as they might have been”....
...Joanna, wife of Chuza, is a servant in the palace of Herod Antipas....
...Nor would we have heard what the same man muttered the day the newsroom filled with the bawl of a crying baby: “Where’s Herod when you need him?” You may say that’s a good thing....
...“We didn’t get ski passes this year. It’s not fun any more,” she says....
...And, despite the efforts of Tennyson, Matthew Pidgeon as Herod and Suzanne Burden as his wife Herodias, it doesn’t overcome regular Wildean plonking of the worst kind....
...You don’t have to read very far in the Bible to realise that Women Are Trouble....
...In 2014, security researchers created a WiFi hotspot in London and buried a “Herod clause” in the contract....
...Anoushka Lucas’s tender Mary Magdalene delivers “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” with lilting, poignant simplicity....
...To demonstrate this, a security company set up a public WiFi spot in the City of London and inserted a “Herod clause” committing users to hand over their firstborn for eternity....
...So why doesn’t Estrada’s cinema get to cross the border, too?...
...Shylock, Oscar Wilde, Herod, Phil Spector? He has done them all. Or rather they have done him. In Danny Collins Unchangeable Al, cast as an ageing folk-rock star, is still unchanged....
...But it doesn’t always work out that way....
...Around the square street sellers were hawking flags, T-shirts, mugs, badges, hats and posters, many with the pope’s smiling face of on them. “Francis the gaucho pope” said one....
...But Jewish walls don’t invariably wail. The establishment of synagogues in the Mediterranean predated the destruction of Herod’s Temple in 70AD....
...“There weren’t many Pre-Raphaelites for sale, so it was easy to drift into Victorian art,” he says....
...The temple was built by Herod the Great, whose architectural legacy casts him in a different light from the tyrant of the gospel story....
...Rudolf Schasching blustered manfully, also wittily, as Herod. Jane Henschel ranted craftily as Herodias. Garrett Sorenson exuded ardour as Narraboth....
...And so the cycle begins again … ” In this, he appears to be channelling Noddy Holder of Slade as much as Herod: “So here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody’s having fun, look to the future now, it’s only...
...The Massacre of the Innocents is a grisly set piece with Herod (Hunter again) enthroned on a heap of child corpses....
...The film tells us little we didn’t know already about the old proximity-versus-relating human quandary....
...Unlike so many of his contemporaries, Ticciati doesn’t draw attention to himself....
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