Word: controller
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...West's good books by playing sheriff in West Africa. And the West was offering nothing by way of finance, weapons or logistical support to maintain the mission. Britain and the U.S., embroiled in Kosovo, simply wanted the Sierra Leone problem to go away. But the rebels' control over the diamond fields gave them a long-term source of funding that made them both a more formidable force and a more intractable foe. And the long-suffering people of Sierra Leone simply wanted peace, even if the price was sacrificing justice for the criminals of the RUF. Thus was born...
...play is one of the greatest literary works written, but you wouldn't know it from Hamlet in the year 2000. Despite some fleeting high points, you might as well add "out of control" to Almereyda's acknowledgment the film was done "fast and cheap." The subject matter requires more time, more money and certainly more thought than this treatment has afforded...
...unfortunate that Shakespeare's play offers virtually no support for the interpretations presented on stage. The most blatant example arises in the portrayal of Malvolio, Lady Olivia's Puritanical steward, by Paul Monteleoni '01. Though it is unclear at what point we may draw the line separating directoral control and actor-based development, it seems that someone involved in the character's evolution should have reread the text. Resembling nothing so much as a demented Muppet, Monteleoni plays for the empty slapstick of a man in tails running about the stage. This leaves him with nowhere to take the character...
...have the strictest licensing in the nation," Calixto said. "We need to control manufacturers, keep stuff out of flea markets...
...needs his "alone time." Every day, I need that hour of silence where I do Ashtanga Yoga in my Maharishi pants and I chant "Om" into the silence of my darkened dorm room. When I'm doing promotional tours and junkets in Asia, it really gets out of control. The States aren't such a zoo, but I get no privacy here either. The other day, this woman comes running up to me and thrusts her newborn into my face. It was a nice baby, nothing extraordinary. And she's like, "Please, please hold my baby. This has been...