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...Wooster. Tori Jueds is strong as the prim Rose Maybud, though one gets frustrated with her etiquette-obsessed, lightweight character. Rose is most interesting when interacting with her social opposite and some-time-fiance, the lusty sailor Richard, played on some evenings by Douglas Miller. Richard should be pure comic relief for the audience: a nautical libertine among the prim British. Unfortunately, although Miller's voice is strong and expressive, his stiff, blocky stage presence and emotionless facial expressions make him ill-suited to this comic role...
Efron's sense of comic timing really helps. Several lines which might have been marginally funny end up hilarious. At one point, Tanner tells Elaine, "I just want to be pals...plus a little extra...
Second, few tools share a common interface, and nearly all tools use arcane commands and sport non-intuitive names like "archie" (named after the comic book character) and "gopher" (named for the mascot of the Minnesota school at which it was created...
...problem, from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, university's point of view, was not that Rimm had found sexually explicit content on the computer networks; there is sex in every medium, from comic books to videotapes. Nor was it even that he had found some of it on CMU's own computers; every university connected to the Internet is a conduit, however unwitting, for gigabytes of salacious words and pictures. The immediate issue was that Rimm had brought it to the administration's attention, pointing out that some of the images on CMU's machines -- digitized pictures of men and women having...
...Back in Anger. Scripts like this, with few characters and no scene changes, can be insufferable tedious even in professional performances. It also doesn't help that the Winthrop House JCR is far from an excellent theatrical space. However, Delichatsions' choreography, from boyish brawls to a song-and-dance comic routine, juxtaposes energy upon indolence in an effective reflection of the themes in the dialogue. And the talented members of Anger's cast give some shine to this diamond in the rough...