Comedians and actors get drunk and retell a historical event.
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Fairy tales are clothing, and to retell them is fashion.
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"Dig up your history, your local history, and retell the story."
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In Ms. Washburn's ingenious piece, they retell the 21-minute story.
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Such organizations often tell and retell a sacred origin story about themselves.
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His hope is that readers will feel compelled to retell these stories.
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I'd retell it, but without his local accent, it wouldn't hold up.
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When I was little I used to retell his stories as my own.
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Pinned by the camera as if they were butterflies, they retell their stories.
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He idolized the Welsh comedian Ifan Gruffydd, memorizing his jokes to retell later.
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Why did you think it was necessary to retell a history of the colonies?
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This documentary seems to retell the story and follow along with the ensuing drama.
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It's content to simply retell the popular stories rather than attempt to comment on them.
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You can edit, interpret and retell your story, even as you're constrained by the facts.
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I've wanted to give them a chance to retell their stories — a rematch, so to speak.
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A couple of other stories in the book are too graphic to retell on Business Insider.
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He wanted these "unsung heroes," as he refers to them, to reemerge and retell their stories.
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After becoming an American citizen, she would retell that story to each of her four sons.
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This story will be retold by the novel's close, just as the novel will retell itself.
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"We still have to retell the story because it's still not known well enough," she said.
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I've profiled Biden's Senate career at greater length elsewhere so I won't retell those stories here.
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Family members worry if they're OK. They retell the stories over and over and reassure loved ones.
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It promises to kick up some controversy — Bible movies that retell stories in new ways usually do.
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It's a bold yet confusing choice to cast a young actress to retell Kuromiya's very personal struggle.
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The children who go through the center must recount experiences of abuse or retell crimes they witnessed.
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I had to couch it in a song to make it more comfortable for me to retell it.
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Why retell the story of a character whose story has already been told so well and so definitively?
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"We set out to retell the Seven Fires Prophecy," Zack said at a Q&A following the screening.
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You retell the most painful week of my life as if it were a never-ending bachelor party.
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Apollo 11, directed by Todd Douglas Miller, harnesses those images to powerfully retell the story of the mission.
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If this is true, then why ever would we continue to retell this horror, nay, to celebrate it?
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A lifelong writer, she then tries to retell their stories, in an effort to connect with her past.
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Apollo 22017, directed by Todd Douglas Miller, harnesses those images to powerfully retell the story of the mission.
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It's one of those stories that people retell around the campfire; it's written down in so many different scrolls.
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The segment started innocently enough, with Norton asking Delevingne to retell an anecdote about having sex on a plane.
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The film seeks to retell the 1940 Richard Wright novel of the same name with a dark, modern twist.
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I didn't know that you had to literally retell the story six times within 24 hours of being assaulted.
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Retell the story in just a sentence, or by identifying the elements in a "Somebody Wanted But So" framework.
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Apologizing to rape survivors who were triggered after the graphic details, he decided to retell what happened that night.
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I have many favorite fairy tales still, and I don't know if I'll ever find a way to retell them.
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With She's Gotta Have It, Lee instead chose to retell the story with more background information and better developed characters.
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It's Easter Sunday, a holiday when Christians across the globe revisit and retell the story of Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection.
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Bacon, Hodge and the creators have spoken about why the show chose to not retell history exactly as it happened.
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A desperate reach-out for an image doctor to retell and reshape a comapany's story at a time of crisis?
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They'll tell and retell their story, sharing pictures and news reports of survivals like their own or far bigger tragedies.
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"Having to retell my experiences of Donald Trump's harassment is the hardest thing I've ever had to do," she stated.
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Recently, WGBH, the PBS member station in Boston, commissioned the artist Eoin Coveney to retell Ba's tale in graphic form.
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He said yes, and the team immediately began brainstorming how they would retell Ace Watkins' Wonderland for a new generation.
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To truly appreciate a photograph needs people to draw out its story and retell it, to wonder over the possibilities.
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The new documentary Apollo 11, directed by Todd Douglas Miller, harnesses those images to powerfully retell the story of the mission.
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It's exactly the kind of crazy real-life anecdote that Hawley might retell in some kind of faux-folksy Fargo monologue.
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Geiselman recommends asking someone to illustrate events with a pencil and paper or to retell the story starting at the end.
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When it came time for Disney to retell the 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty, they didn't stop at making everything live-action.
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His story has been used to retell the story of America's birth in the hit musical directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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His work takes you by the hand, leads you into darkness, whispers secrets that you'll never find a way to retell.
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I retell this story because it defines what type of person should not be chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
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Hermes points out that we retell a story like this one as if the ending will somehow be different this time.
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But when she called to follow-up, the police said they couldn't find her statement, forcing her to retell her story.
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It's a story that is always funny and sexy and romantic, as many times as we tell it and retell it.
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American Crime Story will retell the story of the O.J. Simpson trial, following the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson.
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Apollo 211, directed by Todd Douglas Miller, harnesses these visuals to powerfully retell the story of man's first trip to the moon.
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Headley's language is exquisite and imaginative, the contemporary adaptation on-point and thought provoking – essentially, this is how to retell a classic.
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They deserve time to eat, rest and feel safe before they are asked to retell their entire history of abuse and trauma.
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I was worried I would have to retell the story of my high school sweetheart's death to pancreatic cancer over and over.
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The Carnaval is known for its extreme and often dramatized costumes which retell the stories of the coast in the most exaggerated fashions.
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Claiming a special connection to "the people", they tell and retell their narratives of corrupt elites, crooked immigrants, misleading media and sinister conspiracies.
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We found the book and his (perhaps extremely reckless) efforts to report it fascinating, so asked him to retell how he did it.
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So the drama is presented by the patrons, a dynamic ensemble of singer-dancers, who retell and, in a way, relive the story.
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The Corps said that the post was part of a weeks-long effort to retell the story of the Battle of the Bulge.
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"We have a 3D printing technology that basically formulates and creates the puppets… then we use green screens to retell the story," he adds.
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The tape was never shown to a jury because Buck was later unable to retell the events she described to police during the interview.
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One of the quickest ways to detect deception is to ask similar questions multiple times or simply ask the person to retell the story.
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"Find a way to retell your life story that recognizes that there are many perspectives about the end of your marriage," Ms. Hartley said.
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Good morning, and happy Passover to those who tonight will retell the story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt, and the arrival of freedom.
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I also love telling the stories of my college days — those early love relationships are really some of my favorite stories to tell and retell.
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Norse Mythology is Gaiman's attempt to retell many of the original Norse myths in a modern narrative, from the world's birth to its apocalypse, Ragnarok.
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Allie lives in assisted living as a result of her dementia and Duke visits her each day to retell her the story of their relationship.
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In it, he and Martin Crimp, his librettist, retell the story of Edward II, a 14th-century English king, and his supposed lover Piers Gaveston.
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And, the older version of the woman from Kevin's photo, named Hien (Porter Duong in flashbacks), will be there to retell the non-love story.
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Speaking in North Augusta, South Carolina, Trump brought up one of the family members onstage to retell a story, which dates back to the 1980s.
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For proof, look to the Hogarth Shakespeare series, which enlists an assortment of literary luminaries to adapt and retell various Shakespearean plays as contemporary novels.
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Apollo 11, directed by Todd Douglas Miller, harnesses the iconic images of the moon landing to powerfully retell the story of the Apollo 11 mission.
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She said she has watched nonblack MFOL leaders on panels retell her story, without her permission, about how domestic violence affected the women in her family.
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Broadway sensation Hamilton has become a major pop culture phenomenon, primarily through its use of diverse casting to retell the stories of America's Colonial Founding Fathers.
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I would have loved for this remake to forgo telling the story from the same perspective as the original and instead retell it through Penny's eyes.
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While Mr. Preljocaj has been known to retell classic stories, as with his 2008 version of "Snow White," here he plays with the absence of narrative.
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McDermott and McGough retell the story of Wilde's arrest, trial, and imprisonment with a series of seven small, blue-and-gold paintings on the surrounding walls.
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You've heard plenty of men tell and retell (and attempt) a Ulysses-style journey; Tuttle knew it was time to reinterpret the idea with a woman's voice.
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Tom said his initial reaction to hearing about a "Mulan" remake was positive and made him eager to see how Caro and Disney would retell the story.
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Deadlock doesn't retell the story of the Syfy TV series, as it takes place decades earlier during humanity's first war against their mutinous robot enemies, the Cylons.
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If American Gods has given you the itch for this type of fiction, here are seven novels that retell the stories of characters from myths and religions.
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The plan is that each volume of this trilogy will retell the story of the quest for the boy from a different point of view, Rashomon-style.
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"Doggie Hamlet" doesn't retell that story but borrows from it to look at, in part, what it means to be a citizen of the world, nature included.
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What if your greatest athletic achievement—the kind you retell again and again at the old watering hole—was so big that it came tinged with regret?
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Scientists therefore hope to retell the history of the universe, how it evolved and ended up looking the way it does today, by observing the most distant objects.
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As I learned about the Reys' story, and started to think about how I was going to retell it, it was natural for me to look to them.
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But even though the point of a Passover Seder is supposed to be to retell the Torah's story of the exodus from Egypt, these stories are traditionally left out.
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I'm trying to help retell the story of Hawaii and educate people about our history—not because it is my job to do that, but because I want to.
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It doesn't make sense for Cole to simply retell his story instead of tending to the customers waiting to try flavors like the strawberry Pink Floyd and Mint Condition.
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In writing "The Inheritance," I wanted to take my favorite novel and retell it in a way that its closeted author never felt free to do in his lifetime.
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But they were also skeptical, forcing her to retell the story several times, a trauma she says only made things worse, because it made her feel like she wasn't credible.
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Women I went to elementary school with, high school acquaintances, sorority sisters, co-workers, strangers and family asked me to retell my story, listen to theirs and offer them advice.
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Generations of children grew up on its animated backlist, and enough time has passed to retell the classics using new technology (and for fans to take children of their own).
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Disney's Consumer Products and Interactive Media announced Tuesday it is partnering with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to retell some of Disney's stories using the museum's art collection.
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One of the first films I wanted to look at was To Die For: They use interviews to retell the story, but it's very linear and everyone's telling the same story.
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Still, at the beginning of the novel, events hew so closely to the Greek originals that you may wonder why the author has bothered to retell this old tale at all.
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Here, they guide us through vignettes that retell Walker's family history — and by extension, the history of America — in the hopes of reclaiming the joys of blackness in all its complexity.
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Mr. Cuomo likes to retell the story of how he threatened to bar contractors on the new Second Avenue Subway line from future state contracts if they didn't finish on time.
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Transforming Williams into Verdon to retell the story of the unsung actress' long partnership with director-choreographer Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) took a lot more than hand gestures and jazz hands.
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Years later, Andrew Cuomo would retell an anecdote of running into Mr. Trump at a social function in New York, according to a person who heard it directly from Mr. Cuomo.
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Now that the Expanded Universe is no longer canon, Lucasfilm is free to retell that story (along with what exactly a Bothan actually is) as they see fit in the new continuity.
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Art and Empire attempts to retell the story of Spain's golden age by highlighting the global exchange of cultures as seen in the empire's art and its hugely diverse body of subjects.
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The extensive exhibition attempts to retell the story of Spain's golden age by highlighting the global exchange of cultures as seen in the empire's art and its hugely diverse body of subjects.
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I want to hear these execs ... You know, another story, I was in a meeting with an exec last week and a victim was asked to retell her story to this exec.
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Surrogates, in a not-so-subtle message to Sanders, though, have been instructed by the campaign to retell the story of how Clinton endorsed Barack Obama after their contentious contest in 2008.
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In "Elektra," her latest dance-and-song adventure, which has its United States premiere at New York Live Arts on Wednesday, she mines Greek drama to retell the tale of Sophocles' Elektra.
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The Eclipses Group Theater is bucking that trend to retell a neglected story, reinterpreting Euripides's Alcestis, along with excerpts from Euripides's Hercules, in their new production Hercules: In Search of a Hero.
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These are clunky terms, but they get at what astronomers are interested in more generally—how the Solar System formed, and how the different objects we see today can retell that story.
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The different ways in which Salem's residents tell and retell the Salem narrative can tell us as much about 20th and 21st century America as they can about New England in 1693.
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"We should have a formal commission on race to retell the story of the last 400-plus years in America of systematic legal injustice, discrimination and cruelty," he said in Tuesday's debate.
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Wilson, who works with many mediums but especially paint, doesn't so much retell stories forgotten to time as she does create new ones entirely, alluding to fragmented histories as she shapes her own.
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If we were going to specifically retell something that was happening within the timeframe of us starting to develop the game, who knows where that would go by the time we were done.
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"To get the opportunity to retell the myths and poems we have inherited from the Norse was almost too good to be true," Mr. Gaiman said in a statement released by his publisher.
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They once helped farmers figure out planting seasons, guided explorers and travelers, and, most crucially for our purposes today, offered inspiration to retell stories and legends and make sense of a mysterious otherworld.
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To dodge homophobic epithets, which were more about being girlie than gay, we would retell dirty jokes we didn't understand, disparage girls we liked and feign more interest in sports than we felt.
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They dress up in sexy storybook costumes (designed by Tilly Grimes) and retell, in pulsing song, a tale that was invented by the charismatic center of their group, Michael, when he was a boy.
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"It's possible she didn't know because he was not confiding in her, but she does have every incentive in the world to retell this story as a different kind of victim," Ms. Bloom said.
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Instead of attempting to retell Warhol's entire life story, they include a spread at the front of the book with a timeline containing all the publicly known major milestones of his life and career.
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On multiple occasions, middle-aged men stopped the men to thank them for their service and to retell stories of how safe they felt seeing the Guardian Angels patrol the trains when they were kids.
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When we were doing the show ... I should explain that this show comes out of an effort called "Net Art Anthology" which is an effort to retell the history of net art through 100 works.
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The revived Hogarth Press, in London, with ambition and audacity and what must also be a very large fund for advances, has commissioned a series of novels by famous novelists that retell tales from Shakespeare.
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There were a lot of mathematical models and inferences that led the researchers to these conclusions—these assumptions, and the chance for human bias, make it difficult to exactly retell the history of the Solar System.
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It was a critical detail of the story her 76-year-old mother was about to retell, the story of what happened in this place -- the single event that, in their view, altered their family's destiny.
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Monkman is a Canadian artist of Cree and Irish ancestry, who has made a career of destabilizing the narratives settler colonialism, often by reimagining 19th century history paintings to retell the past from an indigenous perspective.
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Some of the jokes, which are too raunchy to retell here, are aimed at younger women in the crowd — not so much as advice but as warnings on what to expect as the years go by.
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Step ladders, strings and ropes, blocks of wood, the letters of the alphabet: Such is the basic visual vocabulary that is deployed to retell the familiar story of an existentially challenged puppet's quest to become human.
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It's all there, pressed and squeezed into those 60 breathless seconds, and every time we retell the story, we find new ways to tease out what the moment and its fallout say about us as a culture.
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To gauge their understanding and use of the new vocabulary words embedded in the story, we had the children retell the story to a puppet both immediately afterward and again after a four- to six-week delay.
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Do not hesitate to retell the story of why you live where you live, especially if you're one of millions of American families who have fled the hip high-taxed states for other parts of the country.
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The 1983 incident he cites (which I retell in full here) was probably the closest we ever came to total nuclear annihilation, avoided because the Soviet lieutenant colonel on duty refused to follow protocol requiring him to retaliate.
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I think trauma is one of the most impossible things to retell or reflect on, aside from explaining the traumatic event itself, which usually gets people stuck on the gory details or the paradigm of victim and perpetrator.
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The title is both misleading and disarmingly on point: Set in the embattled Paris suburb of Montfermeil — where Ly grew up and still lives — this contemporary drama calls back to Victor Hugo's classic novel but doesn't retell it.
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If your boys were to enroll and train a qualified Negro and then fly him in whatever vehicle is available, we could retell our whole space effort to the whole non-white world, which is most of it.
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If your boys were to enroll and train a qualified Negro and then fly him in whatever vehicle is available, we could retell our whole space effort to the whole non-white world, which is most of it.
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After a security cam footage caught a two year-old saving his twin brother from a dresser, hosts of CNN's New Day invited the family to retell their harrowing experience watching the horror—and subsequent heroic move—go viral.
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After spending about a third of the session trying to find me another therapist in the network (there were none), I had to retell her very basic things, like what brought me to therapy and my goals for therapy.
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The material may feel well rehearsed to Churchill buffs, but breaking new research ground is not Millard's goal: She aims to retell the story in a thrilling, contemporary style for a new generation of readers, and in this she succeeds.
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LONDON — "& Juliet," a musical that uses the songs of the chart-topping pop producer Max Martin to retell "Romeo & Juliet," dominated the nominations for this year's Olivier Awards — the British equivalent of the Tonys — that were announced in London on Tuesday.
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On my birthday, I left my wife and 2-year-old daughter at home to retell the story of what had happened to me that night in the Horn of Africa — a story that, a decade before, no one had believed.
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Park willfully triples the knottiness of the plot by dividing it into three parts—halting the story at a moment of crisis and looping back to retell it, or portions of it, from the viewpoint of a character other than Sookee.
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And then there's a longer tradition of it; I also had in mind Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, or Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, high-culture works that take another story and remix it, retell it, reimagine it.
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Ms. Isenberg's project in "White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America" is to retell United States history in a manner that not only includes the weak, the powerless and the stigmatized, but also places them front and center.
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Among the broad strokes that seem accurate to me, based on my experience as a biographer of Trump and other sources: Trump often fails to deal with the subject at hand, preferring to tell and retell anecdotes and stories that sound rehearsed.
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O.J. Simpson is much, much better than you would expect after hearing that American Horror Story producer Ryan Murphy is going to retell the story of the arrest and trial of O.J. Simpson for the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown.
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Thus, even if this new spin on Roots were literally a shot-for-shot remake of the 1977 original (and it's not), it would still have worth as the latest retelling of a story America probably doesn't retell as often as it should.
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To retell an old story, Evie Eysenburg, another official at the tournament, proposed the "Henry Hook and Mel Rosen Diet": By sitting between these two hilarious people at dinner, she was always laughing so hard that she never had time to swallow her food.
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Throughout The Art of Music, it's clear that the curators have made a concerted effort to not only retell the history of musical instruments in a more global sense, but also to stress the importance of these objects beyond mere vessels for music-making.
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But their dynamic, charged with both violence and eroticism, is so compelling that it's easy to see why so many directors and writers keep returning to Shrew, searching for a way to retell it that doesn't feel like a ringing endorsement of domestic abuse.
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As Derek Waters put it, Drunk History—a show in which people drunkenly attempt to retell stories from history that are then played out by reenactors lip-dubbing the drunken ramblings—would have been a tough concept to pitch without having anything to show for it.
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The framing of the newest game is that one character, the beefcake lunkhead Captain Qwark, learns that a film is being made based on the game based on events in his life, and decides to retell the tale, which then becomes the game you are playing.
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When the children returned weeks later to retell the story, those who had initially heard it from the flat robot showed a decrease in the length and detail of their retold story, whereas those who heard it from the expressive robot retained the information they had heard.
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From ballots to Bannon: What's happened in one week Three years later, as the Bush administration tried to save the shaky tenure of then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Comey, by then no longer in the government, appeared before a Senate hearing to retell the story of the hospital incident.
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Artists can retell the story and think about the implications of the visibility of Black people, and the notion of hyper-visibility, so these are the moments I'd love to explore, not only through panel discussions but also through performance, like dance and other ways to create discussions.
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Although the centuries-old story of the poor girl who falls in love with a prince and then becomes royalty has debatedorigins (it's been said to have roots in places likeChina,Egypt, Greece, andFrance) and a lot of different versions, one thing is for sure — it's popular to retell.
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Gaiman concedes this omission in his introduction, explaining that he would have liked to retell the tales of Eir, the doctor of the gods; or Lofn, the comforter; or Sjofn, the goddess of love; and Vor, the goddess of wisdom, but he didn't have enough to go on.
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Specifically, when women were given various tests, including the ability to recall words or retell a story, the berries appeared to slow memory decline by up to 13½ years, according to lead author Elizabeth Devore, associate epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Starring the exceptionally cast Emma Watson, this 2017 remake attempts to retell that "tale as old as time" with tons of added backstory, new characters, an all-star cast, a sorta-kinda (not really at all) LGBTQ inclusive subplot, and a uniquely rich visual style unlike that of any Disney princess film.
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The Army&aposs XVIII Airborne Corps posted the photo of Peiper with a story detailing the inner thoughts and feelings of the infamous Panzer tank commander and Waffen SS leader as part of an ongoing effort by the Corps to retell the story of the Battle of the Bulge on its 75th anniversary.
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Goss is also an accomplished writer of short fiction and poetry, and this month, she's publishing a collection of her fairy tale-inspired stories, in which a young woman looks for her missing shadow, a sea witch explains why she stole a mermaid's voice, and an alternate Snow White tries to retell her story.
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In a survey of such victims last year, the Alliance for Safety and Justice, a nonprofit organization that focuses on public safety and criminal justice reform, found that an "invisible barrier" to cooperating with law enforcement is "the fear of having to retell the story," said Lenore Anderson, the alliance's president and a former prosecutor.
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These pieces, all centered on fairy tales, refract and reshape familiar stories as much as they retell them; fairy tales, after all, get told and retold because there are elements in them — young people and old people, trials and quests, a visceral desire for justice — that are universal, while their configurations are almost endlessly changeable.
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It's hard to overstate how much fun this film was to see at TIFF in a crowd full of amped-up fans delighted to watch director-star James Franco retell the story of the infamous "best worst movie ever made," The Room, which has attained cult status at midnight screenings around the country since its 2003 release.
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By staging the reveal of the villain at a big moment of deviation from the film's source material, the trailer is wisely playing to all audiences: confirming to novices that a clown is, indeed, the source of all this terror, but also signaling that "It" will retell a familiar story in a distinct, innovative way from its predecessors.
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This, I know, was not the noblest reason to go to Standing Rock, and over the past few years, I've found myself wondering if the sort of journalism I've practiced has much use in the world anymore or if I, and everyone who believes in a "better" way to tell (usually retell) a story, might be looking for nuance in the wrong places.
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There are good bits in all three hours — especially in that second, which might be worth the price of the less good stuff in and of itself — and the series' ability to shift the point-of-view character between episodes allows Boyle and Beaufoy to radically alter the way the story is told from episode to episode, which should (emphasis on "should") be a great way to retell this particular story.
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To paraphrase the series' own tongue-in-cheek metacritique of the cinema, 'It's so much more convenient to consume entertainment from the comfort of your own home'—and it's so much more convenient to retell Handler's epic tale of woe and whimsy when each novel gets two 42-minute episodes to set the mood, to steep in the wit, and to integrate the interjections of the tangent-prone Snicket (played here by Patrick Warburton).
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Mystique becoming a distinct character is one of the few strong throughlines And that, for me, is the real disappointment of X-Men: Apocalypse — Fox has had six-ish hours to tell a coherent story, and with this film, it choses to rewind and try to retell the same stories again: the Professor X / Magneto clash, the coming-out stories of frustrated young mutants, the first stirrings of the Phoenix saga, Cerebro being weaponized by the bad guys, Quicksilver simultaneously saving everyone and stealing their snacks at superspeed.
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Take this one, proclaimed while lighting the Christmas tree: As we retell the story of weary travellers, a star, shepherds, Magi, I hope that we also focus ourselves on the message that this child brought to this Earth some 33,23 years ago, a message that says we have to be our brother's keepers, our sister's keepers; that we have to reach out to each other, to forgive each other...It's a message that grounds not just my family's Christian faith but that of Jewish Americans, Muslim Americans, non-believers, Americans of all backgrounds.
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There's every indication that the audience will be there — for instance, look how successful K-dramas, with their shameless embrace of rom-com tropes and their tendency to retell well-known storylines, have been, both overseas and in the US. I also want to mention Love, Simon and perhaps even Moonlight and Call Me by Your Name here, because while those latter two aren't rom-coms, and Love, Simon might be arguably more of a teen comedy than a rom-com, they collectively indicate an emerging positive space for queer romance.
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How close to Shakespeare's canon the "vibe" needs to be is a matter of interpretation, but Jim Warren, artistic director of the ASC, makes it clear in the press release announcing the New Contemporaries program that the goal is not to simply retell old stories: We're looking for partner plays that are inspired by Shakespeare, plays that might be sequels or prequels to Shakespeare's stories, plays that might tell the stories of minor characters in Shakespeare's stories, plays that might dramatize Shakespeare's company creating the first production of a title, plays that might include modern characters interacting with Shakespeare's characters ... plays that not only will appeal to other Shakespeare theatres, but also to all types of theatres and audiences around the world.
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