so he begins to be or not to be and goes through it, and william walton's music is soaring, shouting effects of the water and the wind and the waves. i mean, it's shakespeare plus a lot of bells and whistles in addition to 0livier�*s beautiful voice. olivier: to be. or not to be. john gielgud by contrast, the ages of man being an account of his recital of great speeches from shakespeare that more or less sort of looked at, indeed, the different transitions that a human being might have across their life, was the human voice, single, alone, and i guess i understood that both worked. and that the tonal range in gielgud's voice in itself was a sort of self—contained mini orchestra. so i began to understand a bit more about poetry and what a performer could do with it but i also was very thrilled by what, if you want to put it crudely, what you could do with the boring bits, if you used an orchestra and sound effects and all the rest of it! so they were wake—up calls to me for what the human voice could do but i suppose, more profoundly than that, what great writing could do. and these r

and the other was laurence olivier, extracts from shakespeare films, with music by sir william waltonould borrow them. i liked the bright, shiny nature of them. i think i half—heard in some distant part of my memory this name, "olivier". anyway, i took them home and i was bowled over. already aware of sort of two extremes. in the 0livier excerpts — which were from the soundtracks of the films — things like his account of hamlet�*s to be or not to be soliloquy which, in his brilliant film, has him atop a rocky outcrop, looking down onto the wild sea crashing against the rocks, while he contemplate suicide. so he begins to be or not to be and goes through it, and william walton's music is soaring, shouting and trilling and supporting, and the sound effects of the water and the wind and the waves. i mean, it's shakespeare plus a lot of bells and whistles, in addition to 0livier�*s beautiful voice. olivier: to be... or not to be. john gielgud, by contrast, the ages of man being an account of his recital of great speeches from shakespeare that more or less sort of looked at, indeed, the di

williams welcome to rules committee. >> thank you very much. good morning, everyone and chair dorsey, vase chair waltonnd supervisor safai. good morning mr. young for keep nothing touch thank you and keeping everybody here this morning. >> my name is dena williams. iim gritted with my family 54 years ago from i republican to san francisco. i fell in love with the city. and love affair never ended. if i am elected to serve it ask out of that love i will be serving >> doing everything i can. to help this commission and the department. problem with doing it off of the thing is this goes dark. [laughter]. spirit of volunteerism and the desire to make this place we call home a better place left by my parents and by the armenian community. if selected i fill the commissioner's pot is slitted for machine served in neighborhood associations and experienced in makered businesses. i have served for many years the delegate from my neighborhood to the west of twin peeks council vice president and president in 2021. 2022 serving parliament. i deserved director of hoa and board of mount davidson memory yell. i serve

and chavez to seat 6 and kavin williams to seat 7 to the board >> vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> ayech >> the motion passes. without objection. >> thank you. on a unanimous point. alexander-tut, chavez and williams to 5, 6 and 7 of the bic. move to the full board as a committee report. >> congratulations. >> mr. clerk. call items 10 and 11 together? >> item 10, is the motion approving rejecting the mayor owe's nomination for kate faveto civil service commission. item 11 is a motion approving nomination for reappointment of jacqueline minor to the civil service commission ending june 30 of 2029. >> thank you, mr. clerk. the commission appointments are subject to charter section 3.10018. provides the board of supervisors has the authority to reject the appointment by 2 thirds of the board within 30 days following the mayor's notice of appointment. if neigh failure of the board to reject within 30-day period result in the continuing to serve as appointed. supervisor safai has requested a hearing on 2 reappointments and i would like supervisor safai

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