humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

> On Mar 7, 10:47 pm, Tom Reedy wrote:
> The best production of AYLI I ever saw cut Jaques' role. It was a
> breath of fresh air not to have to endure the ages of man speech
> and the following obligatory audience applause.
>
Greg Reynolds wrote:
>
> You're just on the eighth stage--grumpy old man.
>
> Jacques is the droll centerpiece we crave.
>
> Yes i hate him too. Mostly because a dork gets to shine.
>
> (Is it possible modern science has cured melancholy and
> we just don't respect it anymore?)
>
> But we need Jacques, with his depressing two syllable name, just
> to explore the ennui/unness/notness of this existing thing we do.
>
> Jacques stays.
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. As You Like It Act 2, Scene 5
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JAQUES: And I have been all this *DAY* to avoid him.
. He is too disputable for my company: I think of as
. many *MATTERS* as he, but I give heaven thanks
. and make no boast of them. Come, warble, come.
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Jay-Cay Pennay : " *EVERY DAY MATTERS* "
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. As You Like It Act 1, Scene 2
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TOUCHSTONE Thus men may grow wiser *EVERY DAY* :
. it is the first time that ever I heard breaking of ribs was sport
for ladies.
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Chuck Schumer's Sartorial Secret
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/03/chuck_schumers_sartorial_secre.html

<things -- loving television cameras, the New York Giants and the sound
of his own voice, for example -- but never in his storied career as a
politician has he been accused of being a fashion plate. And no one in
his or her right mind would ever suspect Schumer of having a European
tailor. Which is why his (loud) conversation aboard a recent
northbound train ride on the Acela Express came as such a shock to two
informants, who also happened to be sitting in the same first-class
car as Schumer.

Schumer, along with the equally and proudly unfashionable Sens.
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.), were on a train to
Philadelphia Friday to attend a fundraiser for the Democratic
Senatorial Campaign Committee, which Schumer chairs. A young woman who
works at the DSCC rode with them. The senators, uncharacteristically,
happened to notice how fashionable she was (compared to them), and
they were overheard complimenting her on her necklace.

Leahy, whose idea of haute couture is a pair of Birkenstocks and a
flannel shirt, mistook the aide's green necklace for authentic jade.
She confessed it certainly isn't, she bought it at Target. Which
prompted Schumer -- talking at his usual 60 to 80 decibels above
normal speaking level -- to tell his aide and colleagues about his
French tailor.

"His name is Jay-Cay Pennay!" shouted Schumer, giving a variation on
the more common faux francophilic pronunciation of JC Penney, which is
"Jacques Pennay."

Schumer does have a thing for fashion, ya know. He offered legislation
last summer with Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) to fight fashion piracy
and protect New York's fashion designers from (mostly Chinese) rip-
offs. Asked about his fancy French tailor, Schumer confirmed it and
quipped, "And I do all my shopping at Tarjay." (Or, pronounced another
way, Target.)

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/03/chuck_schumers_sartorial_secre.html
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Art Neuendorffer