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...what can only be described as text book penalty killing, the Crimson effectively held off the Big Red attack and two minutes later found the tables turned with a five-on-three advantage...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Men's Hockey Nipped By Cornell at Lynah | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...straightforward and brings out the parallels quite successfully. When viewed as an adaptation of Shakespeare, however, the play starts to look like a rather curious beast, and one isn't sure exactly what to make of it. Umabatha sticks fairly close to the main points of Shakespeare's text, retaining its great scenes and its characters, but, of course, those characters and the story itself undergo a process of transformation into a Zulu context...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spectacle Trumps Speech in `Umabatha' | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...language. Since the play is in Zulu, an odd set of unspoken assumptions seems to be established even before the play begins. The idea seems to be that the viewer will already be familiar with Macbeth and can thus follow Umabatha as it weaves variations on the original text. Unfortunately, a viewer who neither knows Shakespeare's play well nor understands Zulu is likely to find much of the action confusing. The play's program does provide scene summaries in English, and large LED boards flanking the stage periodically show abbreviated English translations of the dialogue. Frustratingly, the boards...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spectacle Trumps Speech in `Umabatha' | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...input text into Microsoft Word or Eudora, you have to copy it from NaturallySpeaking and paste it into your other application. While this is an annoyance, it does become second nature fairly quickly...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: Is Voice Recognition Possible? | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

...exact text of the flier is yet to be finalized, but Rawlins, and the bill's co-authors, Nicola A. McKinney '99 and Todd E. Plants '01, said will offer solutions to possible scenarios and address alcohol...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: U.C. Funds On-Line Book Exchange | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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