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...most of the nearly four centuries since it was written, A Midsummer Night's Dream was regarded as one of William Shakespeare's slighter works, an "airy nothing" in the play's own words, of no more substance than a trick that moonlight might play on the eye. But since Peter Brook's landmark rediscovery of the play's darker essence in his 1970 production with the Royal Shakespeare Company, scholars and theatergoers alike have recognized that Dream is much more than a slapstick farce of lovers tangling in a green glade. Its narrative blends wars of the sexes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Moonbeams and Menaces | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...evening, the reporters were unexpectedly herded onto buses and driven to the site of the colonel's bombed-out home. There, bathed in moonlight and flanked by two recently wounded sons, sat Gaddafi's wife Safia. Clutching a crutch as her silver-trimmed black robe billowed in the stiff breeze, the usually private woman vowed to kill with her own hands the pilot who had shattered her house and to pursue eternal vengeance on all Americans "unless they give Reagan the death sentence." For all its staginess, the eerie scene was another reminder that despite last week's precautions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya: Nearly All Together Now | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

When 50 people buy tickets for an event with a published capacity of 375, there has to have been a miscalculation somewhere. This was the first harbor cruise event ever held by the UC. Though the annual Moonlight Cruise for seniors nearly always sells out, the prospect of spending three hours on a Havana-themed boat with a cash bar on an (uncontrollably) rainy Friday night held decidedly less allure. It was so hard for this event to go right, and so easy for it to go wrong...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Hapless on the Harbor | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...Late Great Libido” soar, and a tipsy-gaited “Oahu” dashed the car-ad ambience of its album version. The stop-and-start guitars and propulsive horns of the night’s one new song recalled Kill the Moonlight-era Spoon crossed with the best aspects of Born to Run-era E Street Band...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Menomena Scale Back Sonic Experiments Live | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

Ideal Significant Other: Shes like the Sun Shining Bright/ My Romantic moonlight/ My rainbow after the rain/She’s the joy after the pain/She’s my lover she’s my own/ She’s the strength when I’m not strong/ She’s my comforter and friend/I’m tellin’ you she’s that peace within...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The 15 Hottest Freshmen | 3/17/2005 | See Source »

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