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Louis' is not the only weak will in the play. In sort of parallel plot, a legal clerk named Joe (Geof Oxnard '99) exists in a permanent conflict of ideas and realities. He insists he loves his wife Harper (Jessica Shapiro '01), a fragile agoraphobe with a Valium dependency, but he seems to find plenty of reason not come home on time. He is careerist enough consider a move to Washington, D.C., despite his wife's objections, but also has enough belief in his Mormon ideals as to request that his boss refrain from taking the Lord's name...
Angels in America doesn't really have any "lead" characters, and Altman's cast performs with the smooth excellence of a true ensemble. Shapiro, in her first Harvard performance, is a revelation. Harper is a sympathetic character but not necessarily a likable one. Shapiro dares to make her paranoia and love-starvation obvious from her first scene, but accents her performance so shrewdly with comedy and irony that the character devastates rather than depresses...
...evaluation team is chaired by Harold Shapiro, president of Princeton University. Members include deans, presidents and other officials from institutions including Yale, Brown, MIT and Dartmouth...
...expect there will be quite a crowd for a person of Mr. Wu's stature," said protest organizer Kevin A. Shapiro...
...hope he'll be delivering a response to Jiang's speech and talking about human rights tomorrow...Mr. Wu is famous for trying to increase consciousness of Chinese logai, or forced labor camps," Shapiro said...