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...images of coffins returning from war is understandable, if inexcusable. The policy could have been defended on grounds of morale or taste, for example. But when a number of tasteful, moving images of caskets returning from Iraq were released from the press, the White House decided to defend an ill-conceived policy rather than let it pass, and once again crossed the line from the mistaken to the absurd. A spokesperson for our president condemned the release of the photographs, with the bizarre comment “We must pay attention to the privacy and to the sensitivity...
...more to Dewis’ turn than that; he hinted at a talent for understatement in Roberto Zucco earlier this season, and here he makes good on that promise. His performance is restrained, but neither bland nor mannered; it’s unpredictable and insightful, but never unrealistic or ill-defined. He did have a habit of swallowing his lines when I saw him on opening night, but he may improve as the run goes...
Another way of putting it is that Dewis’ performance is as good as Levy’s is ill-conceived. Her performance is hot-blooded, alert, thoroughly aware—and eminently unbelievable. Levy isn’t untalented, because her blue-moon moments of credibility here are clearly instinctual. But her Hedda is recklessly artificial and horribly overplanned. For a while, I thought that her cartoonishness might have been the point of her performance; but, in truth, many of her Harvard turns (most egregiously in The Waverly Gallery and Chess, but even in minor twaddle like Ivory...
Proctor (Christopher N. Hanley ’07) was the hero of the sad lot of Salem despite his admitted adultery with Abigail Williams (a girl less than 20 and he a farmer with three children). From the beginning his skepticism for the system bodes ill for his fate. He holds himself as the most enlightened of the village and doesn’t bother to restrain his hatred for Reverend Parris. As the whirlwind of madness enters even his house on the outskirts of the village he manages to keep his back straight and nearly unwinds the whole...
...undo 9/11, but we have a chance to thwart other attacks. That's where our time, money and manpower should be directed. I wish the U.S. would lead that effort and not use valuable resources to second-guess what happened leading up to 9/11. RONALD ERICKSON Downers Grove, Ill...