Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single bluebook finals look like less work to grade and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points is you can hack...
...productive period of his life and the beginning of an expedition into an exciting but uncertain future. Last year, after months of deliberation, Collins left his faculty post at the University of Michigan Medical School to lead the Human Genome Project, an audacious effort to decipher the complete genetic script contained in human cells. Collins considered it the most important under taking in the history of biological research. He was moving from classroom gigs to the big show...
...taught at a nearby women's college. His mother, who educated him at home until he was nine, wrote plays, which were performed at a small theater the couple started in an oak grove on their farm. "When Francis was seven," his father recalls, "he wrote a full script for The Wizard of Oz and directed its performance." He played bluegrass and Bach on the pump organ and guitar, and he would spend hours pondering the consequences of dividing numbers by zero...
...Wednesday evening, the American Repertory Theatre opened its production of Orton's What the Butler Saw. In the script, Orton's cleverness, if not outright genius, stands unquestioned. He has a keen knack for dramatizing many of his favorite themes by "inverting" the common knowledge, wherein the normal--progressively through the show--becomes the abnormal and vice versa. His brilliant farce of late 60s English society leaves nothing sacred, not even the phallus of Winston Churchill...
Despite the script's craftiness and the strong acting, this production is weighed down by the simple fact that what the butler saw in 1967 seems rather banal compared to what the butler now sees. More politically inclined people should not expect much ammunition from this production. However, for those looking for a lighthearted farce (albeit unfamiliar) written by one of the wittiest British humourists, What the Butler Saw at the A.R.T. is a good...