Word: strangest
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Prasad V. Jallepalli '92 delivered the traditional Latin oration; his theme was "The Ship of Harvard." In Latin, Jallepalli said that "The Ship of Harvard admits only the strangest sort of animals--or how else would we have Adams House?" Audience members followed the speech with printed English translations. They chuckled frequently. The 350-year-old Latin oration tradition is traditionally irreverent. William S. Parsons '92 wrote his undergraduate address, "Fair Harvard, Farewell," in iambic pentameter. He touched on some serious issues near the end of his speech, but most of it was humorous; a lot of Orientation week jokes...
...good teeth. "I have the eating habits of a four-year-old," Rudnick says. "I'm fond of anything you'd have after school." No wonder the message of Rudnick's most personal work (Jeffrey, Social Disease and his other novel, I'll Take It) is that the strangest people have the sweetest hearts. You lift a rock expecting to find insects, and instead: beachfront...
Also good are Doug Miller as the Duke and Yoseph Choi as the Grand Inquisitor. Miller has one of the strangest accents in a show full of pseudo-Brits but he prances about the stage in the best tradition of the "little man who sings the patter song," as Anna Russell put it. If he is less strong in the second act, his introductory song, "The Duke of Plaza-Toro," in the first is one of the best moments of the show. Blessedly, he understands the importance of enunciation. Choi plays the Inquisitor as a little more of a lech...
...Cambodia is in the midst of the strangest phase of all -- and the only one that could be said to have benign intent. Over the past few months, under the banner of the U.N., the devastated country has been inundated by 20,000 men and women from all over the world, equipped with white cars, white trucks, white planes and white helicopters. They are charged with giving Cambodia something it has never had -- democracy -- along with something it has not known for 22 years -- peace...
Suddenly, computers that had whirred quietly for years started making the strangest sounds. Some began to moo like a cow every hour on the hour. Others greeted each new program with the sound of breaking glass. Still others spent their spare moments doing celebrity impersonations: Ed McMahon belly laughing, Ronald Reagan mumbling, "Well . . .," George Bush advising that a particular keystroke "wouldn't be prudent" or Star Trek's Dr. McCoy spluttering, "Dammit...