Word: jacksonism
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...greeted by a swarm of reporters upon your arrival at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport, must you ask all of them to your wedding...
...this is to say nothing of the Terry Schiavo circus that dominated the media earlier this year. Supposedly in defense of the right to life, the conservative dominated government, with the assistance of such high-profile religious “leaders” like the Rev. Jesse Jackson, mobilized on behalf of a woman who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years—neglecting, of course, less pressing business concerning the millions of non-vegetative Americans who are mired in poverty...
...tortured grandeur; his rage and despair tears through the scenery. As Clytemnestra, Erica R. Lipez ’05 swings plausibly from vengeance-crazed virago to shrill housewife (one of the production’s conceits is the coy use of Americana nuclear-family trappings). Lauren L. Jackson ’07, as the Leader of the Furies, exudes menace and dances wonderfully; Scottie Thompson ’05, as the doomed Trojan seer Cassandra, is eerie and compelling. Sara L. Bartel ’06 knows how to tug heartstrings while also conjuring a fatalistic dignity as the young...
Apart from dancing during interludes and appearing during bookend sequences, the Furies (or more precisely, Jackson, as the lone dancer) were not even an offstage presence—the play would have been a much better constructed thematic unit had their presence been consistent and looming. Nonetheless, it is a comment on both this production and the ART itself that the former could gravitate so close to the latter...
Freshman Shelly Madick closed out a promising rookie campaign with a disappointing start, as she was touched up for five runs and seven hits in three innings of work. Dartmouth centerfielder Kalie Jackson smacked a two-out, bases-loaded triple in the bottom of the third to cap a four-run inning to plunge the Crimson into a 5-0 hole...