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...under sixty minutes, scarcely allowing the audience to breathe, let alone to analyze or reflect. Woyzeck (Thomas Derrah) drops through trap-doors, dashes up ladders and circles the stage. Scene changes resemble film cuts; music clips and sound effects disorient the audience MTV-style. The production behaves as a curious machine, moving in various, divergent directions...
General George Marshall's seems a curious portrait to adorn the Secretary of State's office in 1997, but the choice tells a lot about Madeleine Albright. The 1940s hero-diplomat crafted the ambitious economic plan that kept half of Europe on democracy's side. That world of us vs. them was swept away in 1989, but Albright still aspires to Marshall's "magic and very American approach," eager "to plant the seed" of democracy as he did. She has never forgotten how the people of her native Czechoslovakia, blocked by Stalin from joining the Marshall Plan, quietly absorbed American...
Petrocelli's own handpicked team of four lawyers, a paralegal, one legal assistant and a secretary worked with a curious dynamic. A logical and orderly man, Petrocelli is nevertheless superstitious and a creature of habit. In several of his big civil trials, he had set up a courtside work center outside the main offices of his law firm. Once settled in, he had never set foot back in the office until the trial was over. He had never lost a case when he did this, so the Simpson case was not going to be an exception. Gelblum laughs...
...sophomore "Datamatch" participant, whose year and a half relationship with a Wellesley frosh led him to favor anonymity, replied, "It's not such a big deal. I'm just curious who I'll get matched with. Is that so wrong...
...Students curious about Slavic literature may also want to check out Slavic 231e: "Modern Polish Prose," taught by Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Jerzy Jarzebski...