Word: dealing
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...most surprising skits deal with distortions of serious issues. One is never quite sure whether Critchley's humor is intended to mock the seriousness that the cult of political correctness brings to issues of sexuality and STD's or if Critchley is trying to use humor to break down the discomfort most people have with dealing with these issues. When trying to address what seem underneath the laughs to be serious issues one can only guess at the ultimate intention of Critchley's creation...
...Sedgwick '03, the composers showed an understandable lack of stylistic maturity but a good deal of promise. While the team created several numbers which sounded like a blend of sit-com themes and video games from the mid-1980's, they did manage to slip a few nice duets and ensemble pieces into the mix, most notably Act Two's "Learning How to Tell You." Unfortunately, when the composers did hit upon a pleasant tune, the cast often seemed to choose their own, making it up as they went along. Variable vocal strength tended to muddle the lyrics in larger...
Given the necessarily intense commitment of shaping the Freshman Musical, many of those involved show a great deal of theatrical potential. If they can pick themselves up, dust themselves off and acquire some experience and guidance, the class of 2003 just might have something to sing about...
...early hours arresting protesters who're trying to stop the U.S. Navy from reopening its bombing range on the island, among them nuns, priests, labor leaders and U.S. congresspeople from Illinois and New York. The base is being reopened on a presidential order after the White House negotiated a deal with Puerto Rico's governor to resume limited testing with dummy bombs and hold a referendum sometime in the next three years, in which residents would be asked to vote up or down on a proposal to maintain the bombing range in exchange for a $40 million aid package...
...ambassador Richard Holbrooke as he meets Thursday with Congolese president Laurent Kabila to discuss plans to deploy a U.N. force in the similarly troubled Congo later this year. "Holbrooke has been warning for some time of the danger of sending in forces that are too small to deal with the scale of the problem and therefore vulnerable to attacks and kidnapping, which appears to be exactly what has happened in Sierra Leone," says Dowell. "But it's no simple matter to expand the peacekeeping force, because to control a recalcitrant guerrilla army in hostile terrain would require a military commitment...