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"shrew" Definitions
  1. a small animal like a mouse with a long nose
  2. (old-fashioned) an offensive word for an angry unpleasant woman

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" Shrew, she argues, plays with the roles of "shrew and madman," and it plays with "taming.
These animals — and their parasites — are now spreading north, making life harder for another type of shrew typical on this area, the barren ground shrew.
" The book sent me back to "shrew, sense 1.
Did they say, 'Best Play 1594: Taming of the Shrew?
Donald Trump's persona is about being a shrew, savvy businessman.
The species of shrew used in this study, Sorex araneus.
This is the most timidly inoffensive "Shrew" I've ever seen.
Do they wonder: Why is the arctic shrew feeding again?
The Taming of the Shrew is one of my faves.
What do you do with The Taming of the Shrew?
This election-year "Shrew" obviously makes no pretense of being nonpartisan.
VINEGAR GIRL"The Taming of the Shrew" RetoldBy Anne Tyler237 pp.
VINEGAR GIRL: "The Taming of the Shrew" Retold, by Anne Tyler.
BOOM, she turns into an inexplicably evil shrew in an alternate timeline.
I'm not a nagging shrew and they're no longer sulky, sullen adolescents.
"How dare you sic that shrew on me?" she said in the message.
VINEGAR GIRL: William Shakespeare's "The Taming Of The Shrew" Retold, by Anne Tyler.
It's that tension that gave Kate's final speech such power in Lloyd's Shrew.
Thomas Jefferson has an extinct scallop, Teddy has an elk and a savanna shrew.
Exactly how a shrew shrinks its brain is still something of a head-scratcher.
For Tyler, the very idea of the taming of the shrew is obviously defunct.
The "shrew" in question from Shakespeare's original title, Kat is an unapologetically angry teen girl.
A loudmouth woman with a strong opinion is still considered a shrew in our society.
A mother shrew and her sick son, Hugo, live in a treehouse in the woods.
Anne Tyler's take on "The Taming of the Shrew" is, predictably, winsome, straightforward, and smart.
Gradually, however, this "Shrew" settles down by turning Shakespeare's story into something much more anodyne.
He refused to be a shrew tamed by the hatred or backward politics of his time.
"The Taming of the Shrew" made far fewer waves, but it, too, aimed for modern dramaturgy.
" Between Mr. Maillot and the Bolshoi, the dialogue has continued beyond "The Taming of the Shrew.
It's not a subtle metaphor, but The Taming of the Shrew has no use for subtlety.
More recently Jean-Christophe Maillot created a production of "The Taming of the Shrew," for the Bolshoi.
"For one thing, a man wrote The Taming of the Shrew," one of my party pointed out.
Another venomous mammal among the solenodon's relatives, the northern short-tailed shrew, also has kallikreins in its venom.
We will also be looking at "The Taming of the Shrew" in the context of the #MeToo movement.
New research shows that the skull of at least one variety of shrew actually shrivels in size every winter.
Even before I saw Ms. Lloyd's "Shrew," I knew I was hoping she would solve the play for me.
Yang was a character rarely seen on primetime television: an Asian woman who was shrewd without being a shrew.
Especially without asking, especially when you're hangry and especially when it's that squeaky-voiced, magnet-toting shrew Christie Masters. 12.
Judith (Kathryn Wilder), one of his daughters, is a shrew; the other, Susanna (Lydia Wilson), has married a Puritan bore.
The Taming of the Shrew has conventionally been understood as a narrative that dabbles—if not wades—in spousal abuse.
"Bob's wife was a shrew," she says in her voiceover (in the same breath as the phrase "Long Island Lolita").
Is "The Taming of the Shrew," Shakespeare's battle-of-the-sexes comedy, too 16th-century retro for audiences in 2016?
Previous research had hinted that all shrew species might undergo a reduction in body and head mass during the winter.
Every year the tour prepares a comedy and a tragedy (this year "Hamlet" alternates with "The Taming of the Shrew").
Which is not to say that Lloyd's Shrew ignored the comedy and the eroticism that gives the play such sparkle.
The Hard-Ass What started out as a powerful do-gooder lawyer quickly transformed into a trope: the hard-ass shrew.
An open and free internet should now be considered a basic human right, don't let some corporate shrew tell you otherwise. 
Sure, the Republicans are engaged in a hilarious performance of "The Taming of the Shrew" with their tart-tongued presumptive nominee.
Anne Tyler's "Vinegar Girl" is a retelling of "The Taming of the Shrew," set in Baltimore, not far from Johns Hopkins.
History has branded her a shrew, but Mr. Nelson views her sympathetically, and hands her one of the play's funniest lines.
It could also, and unpredictably, rouse demons that turned me into a wifely shrew, sparked bruising arguments, unleashed embarrassing faux pas.
For a very physical show, like "The Taming of the Shrew," she spends the afternoon before an evening performance at home.
There's a fine line between fit and too fit, hot mom and too hot of a mom, the striver and the shrew.
That's what "The Taming of the Shrew" had come to in a 2016 Shakespeare in the Park production directed by Phyllida Lloyd.
For her, "Shrew" is a parable of discovery in which two misfits find, beneath the social construction of love, its natural contours.
The plot, based on Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," involves a marching band, a prom and the pursuit of forbidden love.
World War II is a way to tame a shrew and a bully and to pair off adorable couples of multiple generations.
That's what makes The Taming of the Shrew so difficult to discard — and there are many reasons to want to discard it.
Throughout its run, Lloyd's Shrew balanced the sparkly comedic appeal of Petruchio and Kate's courtship with the violent undercurrent running through it.
Such is the case with "Fratelli," Abrantes's deliciously shot bastardization of Shakespeare's ''Taming of the Shrew,'' which he co-directed with Alexandre Melo.
This rollback on specific areas of the shrew bod' might be an energy-saving adaptation, throttling down disproportionately calorie-sucking apps like brains.
" They went on to star in 1965's "The Sandpiper," 1967's "The Taming of the Shrew," and 1972's "Under Milk Wood.
Her "shrew," Katherine, is a 29-year-old grump who lives with and cares for her sister, Bunny, and her father, Louis Battista.
That a bossy shrew is conspiring to single-handedly bring down the Spaniard's Bay fire department and its beloved chief out of spite?
"Shrew" is a shaggy, youthful play — Shakespeare was still in his 20s when he wrote it — and can be pruned into various shapes.
Like all of the festival's offerings, "Shrew" — running in repertory with "Richard II" and "The Heart of Robin Hood" — benefits from its environs.
A success since its 193 premiere, "The Taming of the Shrew" has become a calling card at home and abroad for the Bolshoi.
The Taming of the Shrew, one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies, even references the same Latin grammar book that the Stratford Free School used.
I just finished playing Gremio in the all-female "Taming of the Shrew" in Central Park for the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park.
Refinery29: Were you looking to adapt Taming of the Shrew before you came up with the plot of 10 Things I Hate About You?
This season has correctives, like the Public Theater's all-female production of "Taming of the Shrew," playing at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
The Bolshoi will also perform the American premiere of "The Taming of the Shrew," choreographed by Jean-Christophe Maillot and with music by Shostakovich.
One example is the masked shrew, a small mole-like mammal that lives in the forests just below the Arctic tundra, in Alaska and Canada.
Alongside the shrinking skulls, shrew brains lose a hefty portion of their mass, and there is also winter reduction in organ size and spine length.
Though Shakespeare wrote "Shrew" as a play-within-a-play for a drunk named Christopher Sly, Ms. Lloyd has come up with another framing device.
"The Taming of the Shrew" even got one when it was new: "The Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed," by a Shakespearean contemporary, John Fletcher.
Back in 2003, when Mark Lamos directed "Shrew" at Yale Repertory Theater, I hoped in vain that the all-male cast would lessen the ending's sting.
It lived alongside meat-eating dinosaurs about 20 feet (6 meters) long, as well as armored dinosaurs, turtles, shrew-sized mammals and flying reptiles called pterosaurs.
The fur of the Cuban solenodon — which looks like a shrew with a very long snout — was repurposed from a polar bear and painted rusty brown.
But even with such interpolations, Ms. Lloyd's streamlined "Shrew" (a bouncy two hours, with no intermission) manages to tell Shakespeare's original tale with briskness and clarity.
David Rockwell's sets, in a naturalistic mode for the backstage scenes, flip back several eras to primitive painted borders and cutout flats for the "Shrew" material.
Ms. Krysanova does as well as Katharina as Mr. Maillot will allow, but, since Katharina isn't really much of a shrew here, the role lacks force.
Is 10 Things I Hate About You a poor reading of The Taming of the Shrew because it updates the play's themes to suit modern-day sensibilities?
The intellectual woman's going to be reduced to an embittered rejected shrew who's going to destroy the youthful body of the child she perceives as her rival.
Ms. Taymor — who sees Kate and Petruchio as in cahoots by the end, equals merely pretending the kind of dynamic that their society expects — considers "Shrew" fun.
Also extremely popular were his film adaptations of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" (1967) with Ms. Taylor and Mr. Burton, and "Hamlet" (1990) starring Mel Gibson.
To sidestep the problematic gender dynamics of Shakespeare's original plot, Mr. Maillot made Katharina, the Shrew, and Petruchio equals — equally rebellious, and equally unsuited to their milieu.
Other so-called Lazarus species include the New Guinea wild dog, the Nelson shrew, the stubfoot toad, the takahe bird and the Bocourt's terrific skink, just for starters.
The New York Shakespeare Exchange presents an evening of "intimacy direction" based on scenes from "The Taming of the Shrew," at the 2000rd Street Library in Midtown Manhattan.
In this modern-day twist on "Taming of the Shrew," Ledger plays Patrick Verona, a cigarette-smoking bad boy hired to date Kat (Julia Stiles), an angry feminist.
This adaptation of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew was set in 1990s Seattle (but filmed in Tacoma), with lots of scenes filmed at the home of the Stratford sisters.
In Voyager, the third book in Diana Gabaldon's series, Laoghaire is portrayed as a shrew who will stop at nothing to make Jamie's life hell after her leaves her.
But the grotesqueness with which he targets Brzezinski, painting an image of her as a desperate, aging shrew, feels like a new level of shock horror even for Trump.
The two women turned Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew into a timeless high school rom-com filled with two very different sisters, ill-advised betting, and Letters To Cleo.
Then there's the entire plot of the film's inspiration: in The Taming of the Shrew, multiple men scheme and plot over who could obtain the most submissive, docile wife.
The original "Kiss Me, Kate" ended with its backstage plot converging nicely with "Shrew": Lilli submits to Fred just as Kate offers to place her hand under Petruchio's foot.
Shakespeare's comedy "The Taming of the Shrew" can be a tour de force for whoever's playing the wild-hearted Katherina, but it's a notoriously tricky play for modern times.
In 2016, for instance, the Public produced Troilus and Cressida (set in ancient Greece), as well as The Taming of the Shrew — the latter with an entirely female cast.
Constance Grady: 10 Things is one of the only successful adaptations of Taming of the Shrew that I know of, and plenty of people have tried to adapt it.
Katherina, the titular "shrew," is wild and angry, perhaps even violent: One scene has her tying up her sweet younger sister Bianca as Bianca screams and pleads for mercy.
Long assigned the thankless role of the humorless shrew to her doofy male counterpart, Heigl slyly subverts her own onscreen persona by taking it to a chilling extreme in Unforgettable.
Meanwhile, movies like Cruel Intentions and 10 Things I Hate About You served up new spins on very old stories (Les Liaisons Dangereuse and The Taming of the Shrew, respectively).
One of the earliest mentions of diapers comes from Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew"; they were basically just square muslin cloths used to wrap around a baby and collect waste.
Mouni Roy, the film's female lead, gets limited screen time as a sometimes violent, shrew-like wife who thinks nothing of slapping her husband and patronizing him every chance she gets.
"We accomplished many things, but I think that even if we had only been able to do 'The Taming of the Shrew,' it would already have been good enough," he said.
" The role is Lilli, a middle-aged actress with a faltering career who reunites with her producer/actor ex-husband to perform in a musical version of "Taming of the Shrew.
Before her 26 years began, Hillary had already been defined as a shrew and a criminal by the same political enemies who now join the conservative grassroots in chanting for her imprisonment.
"I think at the end of the movie, you never get the sense that her character is going to be controlled by Patrick, in terms of Taming of The Shrew," says McCullah.
All men are cheating scumbags, Katherine is the "nagging shrew," and Catherine is a femme fatale who's later revealed to be a literal succubus who "tricks" men into cheating on their partners.
Everybody runs wild in Phyllida Lloyd's riotous, all-female production of "The Taming of the Shrew," which opened with a rebel yell at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park on Monday night.
To say that Ms. Lloyd's take on "Shrew," the most notoriously prickly of Shakespeare's depictions of love as a battlefield, is not as subtle as those earlier ventures is putting it mildly.
A theater review on June 14 about "The Taming of the Shrew," at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, misstated the title women vie for in a beauty pageant in the production.
Based on "The Taming of the Shrew," the film centered on the Stratford girls, whose strict father won't allow Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) to date until her older sister, Kat (Julia Stiles), does.
It's a well-crafted book — Tyler could write a light dysfunctional family comedy with her hands tied behind her back — but as an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew, it's cowardly.
In 10 Things I Hate About You, Kat is a bold feminist and a distinct embodiment of late Riot Grrrl, but also based on the titular monster from The Taming of the Shrew.
Before you accuse me of being some old shrew who's just angry because the younger generation, with their fancy devices and wacky slang, is ascendent, let me say this: I love Gen Z!
Inspiration also was drawn from Shakespeare's works - "The Winter's Tale" and "The Taming of the Shrew" - for printed silks and floral embellishment on dresses, which were paired with ankle boots and cropped jumpers.
I couldn't come up with anything clever when that entitled shrew told me to watch where I was going, but I did know that most wheelie-luggage people are in poor physical shape.
I had been reading "The Taming of the Shrew" in school, and it was the first time I had read a romantic comedy [script] that captured teenage angst in such a clever way.
And in another writer's hands, Toby really is the aggrieved and wronged party that he believes himself to be and Rachel really is the bitter shrew that he presents her to us as.
The stereotypes that Sanlian and Jay seem to embody — shrew and rogue — peel away, leaving only the tenderness and the sense of betrayal both of them still feel toward the man they loved.
It sounds like something out of a filthy fairy tale: the mountain tree shrew visits certain species of pitcher plant to grab a bite of nectar, and poop into the plant's commode-shaped cup.
" Kirsten Smith: "We were recruiting so many of our friends to find fairytales, or fables, and one night a friend was like 'You guys should do Taming of the Shrew, that would be great.
THE ARTS A theater review on June 14 about "The Taming of the Shrew," at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, misstated the title women vie for in a beauty pageant in the production.
Two summers later, with the #MeToo movement having exploded in the interim, it seemed time to say that "Shrew," for all its perverse pleasures, should be left alone, in either of that phrase's meanings.
That summer, while starring in "The Taming of the Shrew" at Shakespeare in the Park and packing up her apartment to return to London, Jumbo got the call that "The Good Fight" was on.
William moves to a remote farm with his four children and his dour, pinch-faced wife (Kate Dickie, better known as that awful shrew who disappeared forever down the Moon Door in Game of Thrones).
There was an explosion of feminist magazines and periodicals like Shrew and the iconic Spare Rib, as feminists abandoned misogynist media outlets (where they were frequently asked to do secretarial work) and founded their own.
If you're prone to loathe her, you assign her the personality of a shrew — and claim that she shouted "And how did Bill's impeachment work out for those [expletive]?" on Page 4 of your book.
Kraft is recently engaged.) They are hired to tour from January through May, break for a month, then reunite in July and perform one of the plays (this year, "Shrew") back at the Lenox campus.
Shakespeare in the Park has done "Shrew" in the past — Meryl Streep played Kate opposite Raul Julia as Petruchio in 1978, and Tracey Ullman teamed with Morgan Freeman in 1990 — but not on Mr. Eustis's watch.
Mr. Johnston created several stage works, including "Gambit" (1959), a ballet with a vivid, jazz-tinged chamber score that Merce Cunningham choreographed, and incidental music for a production of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" (1961).
The two pufflings and their parents have all sorts of fun adventures on the little island of Puffin Rock, sometimes with friends like Bernie the hermit crab, Mossy the shrew, and Silky the seal in tow.
Lloyd stripped away the usually ignored framing device from Shakespeare's original play: Dude passes out in a tavern; everyone decides to convince him he's rich when he wakes up; they put on Shrew to entertain him.
His "Taming of the Shrew" the year before was a hit too, with Richard Burton and Liz Taylor both backing it and funding it, though they were so riotous on set that he could barely direct them.
The Off Broadway nonprofit said Thursday that it would offer free productions of "The Taming of the Shrew" and "Troilus and Cressida" for its Shakespeare in the Park program, one of the city's most popular summer highlights.
Scientists had previously described an odd relationship between skull size and season in some shrew and weasel species, where winter was full of individuals with smaller skulls, and summer was dominated by animals with comparatively voluminous noggins.
But previous studies only demonstrated the effect across whole populations of the small mammals, leaving open the possibility that larger-headed shrews were dying off in winter, reducing the average head size of the spring shrew populace.
Lastly, if you're in New York: We reviewed the Bolshoi Ballet's "Taming of the Shrew" at the Lincoln Center Festival and a stunning altarpiece from colonial-era Mexico that's on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
As Susan, Jerry's soon-to-be wife who doesn't really want her wedding day to be a playground for grown men, Bibb could have easily been cast as the shrew trying to put an end to the fun.
During rehearsals for "Shrew," we spent an enormous amount of time learning the physicality of men: taking up lots of space, not talking with your hands, leading from the crotch, and conveying that all-knowing sense of entitlement.
The decades-long smearing of Hillary Clinton as an unhinged shrew culminated one year ago today when, despite maintaining a preternatural calm throughout the most brutal campaign in living memory, she lost the election to masculinity's apoplectic id.
Only a handful of other "living fossils" have been identified, such as the pen-tailed tree shrew and the monito del monte, a chubby kind of wide-eyed marsupial that's slightly larger than a mouse and another excellent climber.
Drawn from his album "Songs for Unusual Creatures," the program will playfully investigate species like the blobfish, the elephant shrew and the blue-footed booby, using Mr. Hearst's band and instruments like the stylophone, the claviola and the theremin.
Franco was iconic and at that point had done Hamlet with Mel Gibson, The Champ with Jon Voight, Endless Love, Taming of the Shrew with Elizabeth Taylor… so you can imagine what a big opportunity this was for me.
Appropriately for a modern shrew, it is Kate who tames herself by coming to understand what is going on (and there is a somewhat sinister climactic event), to acknowledge that change and growth and acceptance are to be ­welcomed.
Fred is staging a production of "The Taming of the Shrew," in which he plays Petruchio, the suitor who eventually wins the hand of the tough and tough-talking Katherina (played by Lilli), the daughter of a Paduan lord.
For his production of "The Taming of the Shrew" — with Jonathan Pryce memorably playing the dual roles of Petruchio and Christopher Sly, a drunken set-wrecker — for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Mr. Bogdanov won an Olivier Award in 1979.
The novelists include Howard Jacobson, who has done "The Merchant of Venice" (as "Shylock Is My Name"); Anne Tyler, who's done "The Taming of the Shrew" (as "Vinegar Girl"); and now Margaret Atwood, doing "The Tempest" (as "Hag-Seed").
The country's theaters work under a repertory system, which means that productions rotate constantly: In April 2014, the first full month of rehearsals for "The Taming of the Shrew," the Bolshoi Ballet performed 10 ballets on its two stages.
And so one of the major topics of discussion in cultural circles that summer was whether, and how, the misogyny and subjugation of women that are seemingly advanced by The Taming of the Shrew could be staged in 2016.
Released at the very end of the 200s, this modern take on The Taming of the Shrew was formative beyond encouraging a legion of girls that platform flip-flops, slip dresses, and strapless satin-y tops were de rigueur.
Park is convincing as the underachieving Marcus, calibrating his performance in a way that doesn't make him too sympathetic (which would make Sasha seem comparatively like a shrew or a scold) but also shows that he's incredibly decent, just damaged.
The spinoff co-stars Cush Jumbo, who joined "The Good Wife" as Alicia Florrick's pal Lucca Quinn this past season (and who opens in "The Taming of the Shrew" in Central Park next week) JOHN: O.K., Mike, I need a break.
That standard is adding fuel to the fire because Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has repeatedly argued that the Epic Games Store intends to add "options" for players (rather than, say, being a shrew business move for a major corporation).
Though most furry creatures during the Mesozoic Era — which spanned the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods — were about the size of a shrew or mouse, Cifelliodon was about as big as a rabbit or hare, and weighed about 2.5 pounds.
They already had the title for their new movie, inspired by a list McCullah had kept about a boyfriend, and they landed pretty quickly on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew as the play they wanted to reinterpret for modern times.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A shrew-like primitive mammal that inhabited China 165 million years ago represents a milestone in mammalian evolution, scientists said on Thursday, boasting a key anatomical trait in its throat that helped usher in the era of polite table manners.
She's not a murderer, not a crazy person, not some humorless, castrating shrew—she's just a loudmouth Jewish broad who won't let her big nose or her gender or, sometimes, the fact that she's a prostitute keep her from getting what she deserves.
Until and unless the line "kick him right in the Coriolanus" shows up in an as yet undiscovered quarto of "The Taming of the Shrew," Cole Porter's "Kiss Me, Kate" score from 1948 is, shall we say, true to Shakespeare in its fashion.
The show is about Lilli and Fred, once-married actors starring in a production of "The Taming of the Shrew," a Shakespeare comedy (often vexing to contemporary audiences) in which a fierce woman is persuaded to humble herself to please her husband.
The Stratford Festival in Canada has eight Shakespeare plays available via iTunes, Amazon and Google Play ($214 for rental, $25 for purchase), including "Hamlet" and "The Taming of the Shrew," with "Romeo and Juliet" and "Timon of Athens" coming in the spring.
"They thought I was a shrew," Witherspoon said, referencing the casting directors who couldn't separate the actress from one of her recent characters at the time, the self-assured overachiever Tracy Flick from Election — a far cry from the bubbly, cheery Woods.
Based loosely on Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew, the movie told the story of two sisters in Seattle, Kat (Stiles) and Bianca (Larissa Oleynik), whose overbearing doctor father forbade them from dating in the fear that they'd come home knocked up.
Yes, Toby is having lots of mildly kinky sex — mostly with women his own age, because younger women depress him — and he does indeed consider his ex-wife Rachel to be a crazy boner-killing shrew who won't even mother their children properly.
The ensuing investigation, which uncovered the involvement of Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly, along with the rumors that Harding herself orchestrated the hit, became a fixture of nightly news, solidifying Harding's reputation as a power-hungry shrew who would stop at nothing to win.

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