Word: reading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure you guys probably get this a lot, so I apologize for asking this, but how did you guys come up with your band name? I read on the Internet that it means "Dimwit Reproductive Monkey" in Welsh...
There are few things I hate more in a movie review than when the reviewer can't stop talking about how much better the book was. Most times, you haven't read the book. You're too busy to read the book. And if you cared enough to read the book yourself, you're probably going to see the movie anyway and decide for yourself. So I promise I won't tell you how much I relished Patricia Highsmith's wicked little fiction The Talented Mr. Ripley a couple years ago, and its four cold-blooded sequels in the years...
...step further and so, I kept my eyes and ears open for anything particularly interesting that might be happening next semester. Randomly, through a friend of a friend of a friend, I got my hands on a play called In Between O'Clock by Michael Ragozzino 01. I read it in one blast (now if only I could do that with my other reading) It's a wicked little existential story with a fantastic lead role (Mike wrote the play as an independent study with mentor Adrienne Kennedy, award-winning playwright and Harvard professor) and I'm entirely curious...
...guide for this trip (and I do mean trip) through history and literature is the eminent 19th-century translator of Russian literature Constance Garnett, whose unrelenting Englishness (read: priggishness) has been a scourge to modern translators from Nabokov on. Fashioned by Durang as a kind of Charles Kinbote for the entire Western cannon, Garnett is as much a mangler of Russian literature as a scholar of it. (The Russian word for frustrated homosexual is Peter Tchaikovsky, she says). Played with unrelenting and downright hysterical formality by Thomas Derrah, Garnett becomes as loveable as she is overbearing. Listening to her roll...
...extracurricular route is a sound one," Prince said. "You don't need someone standing over you with a stick and beating you with what plays you need to read...