Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this issue simply too pedestrian and unsophisticated to be a cause for concern? --Andrew Gossen...
...seat among the audience and into the witness stand. Prosecuting Counselor Clamence (Claire Farley '01) accuses him of complicity in the actors' murders: by doing nothing to prevent the players' deaths, she argues, Roulleau is no less culpable than a bystander who doesn't warn an oblivious pedestrian in the path of a train. This premise sets Groundlings rolling, and the rest of the one-act play is devoted to Roulleau's Kafka-esque trial. The ensuing action alternates between the troupe's re-enactment of Hamlet's murders, which the prosecution displays in the form of a plaintiff...
...about 1:25 p.m. a pedestrian accidentally walked through orange cones at a detail on Mt. Auburn Street walked into a trench, fell and cut her hand...
Forget about Fred Thompson's pedestrian hearings. The real fireworks will start Tuesday, when the Senate Finance Committee turns its attention to the IRS. The probable highlight of this week: Cloaked in black hoods (no, really), IRS agents are expected to testify that the agency routinely abuses and mistreats taxpayers. Nearly 42 percent of the $13.2 billion in penalties that the IRS assessed against taxpayers last year was wiped off the books after corporations and individuals challenged the levies as excessive or unnecessary, leaving the revenue boys with some explaining...
...Thousand Acres" is derived from Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, itself a loose adaptation of King Lear that carries Shakespeare's plot into present-day Iowa. The film veers wildly between a pedestrian fidelity to Smiley's words and a surprising negligence of her plot sequence. The film works, but not nearly as well as it should...