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...text, though it generally seems like an ill-conceived improv sketch, does have it high points. Likewise, the cast bravely struggles against the banality of their lines, occasionally achieving something not totally unlike entertainment. Jared Greene '03 was delightfully serious as the misguided mystic, John, and James Crawford '03 nearly succeeded in ripping a character from the script's lifeless caricature, David. While they managed to salvage a performance from their script, others were simply overwhelmed. Caitlin Butler '03 (Tess) and Mia Lozada '03 (Malvolia) saw their talents go to waste, trapped within the confines of one-joke roles. Butler...
...King Lear, Egan's goal is to get down to the foundations of the text, stripping away all that is superfluous to the characters and their situations. Though the production will be largely in a traditional style, he says that the differences which separate his version from a more conventional treatment are in a large part a matter of set design. Egan claims that the set will allow the show "to slowly strip away layer after layer leaving nothing but barren nakedness at the end." It is also important to him to challenge the notion that Lear requires a level...
...This coverage represents a step in the right direction. But in addition to ignoring other countries in the horn of Africa--which would have doubled the number of starving people in the article's statistics--the paper found these events worthy to fill only a two-inch column of text. Even worse, the information was located on page 18 of the newspaper, just to the left of the U.S. temperature map. Eighteen pages earlier, the day's top headline proclaimed "U.S. Will Let Friends From Cuba Visit Elian," which was closely followed by the revelation that Jon Benet Ramsey...
...White text on a black background ensures astonishing success...
...substantive changes in the statement do bring us more up-to-date, in the sense that years ago there were text books at one end of the spectrum, and professors lecturing in the classroom, at the other," he says. "Now, the new technologies bridge this...