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...line of red lights that frames the entire stage, including much of the top, as if to trap the characters within the confines of the set. Corrugated, graffitied iron extends beyond the lights. Within the lit frame, however, the décor is not incompatible with the early 1900s. The red lights are not the only delineating separating feature of the set, which was also designed by Lupa. A slightly reflective screen divides the living room foreground from the dining room background, allowing the juxtaposition of divergent actions in the two rooms, so the audience’s attention...
...early 1900s, Radcliffe enrolled around 500 students total, the vast majority of whom were of considerable social standing. Like all good final clubs, sororities, and secret societies, The Club existed for and because of its exclusive status in an already exclusive institution...
...folk song indigenous to New England: ?Better than his brother Joe, Dominic Di-Mag-gioooooo!? Curious and emboldened, Berry made his way through the car and found Powers leading the chorus. ?He seemed to resemble the immortal ?Nuf Sed McGreevey, a leader of the Royal Rooters of the early 1900s. I introduced myself by offering a toast to the great Jimmie Foxx. By mentioning Ol? Double X, I promptly identified myself...
...Arabs in the movie than the British. Kennedy had inherited his father's light blue eyes, but he had his mother's black hair and in the summer would get a deep tan. He had heard a story about his great-grandfather being barred from voting in the early 1900s because his skin was too dark. "I thought, What's wrong with us? Why do we look funny?" When he asked his mother, "I was told to shut up. I really didn't know who I was," he says...
...dispense with the mythology right up front. A driver's license has never been just about driving. When the first ones were issued in the early 1900s, the idea was to collect fees, not to test driving skills. More recently, revoking licenses became a way to punish people who didn't pay child support or, in Wisconsin, shovel snow off their walks. In its most coveted form, the license is proof of age--or of fraud, as the case may be. In college, for example, I was not Amanda Ripley from New Jersey; I was Amanda Jones from California...