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...ever there were a black sheep in the Shakespeare cannon, Titus Andronicuswould be the prime contender. One of the Bard's earliest dramatic efforts, it's also his bloodiest and most sensational--murder, rape and bodily dismemberments abound, with some cannibalism thrown in for good measure. Director Jose Zayas' approach, however, makes a creative if somewhat over-zealous attempt to move the play out of slasher-film territory into a combination of comic irony and the spookily surreal...
...development at Harvard is an exercise in complex urban planning...priorities abound and they conflict with one another," said Kenneth A. Shepsle, chair of both the committee and the Government department...
Companies are clearly being duplicitous in posting warnings they expect no one to follow. If the material is for research only, why is the student supplied not with notes but with a polished, fully-edited final product? Such contradictions abound because the business of selling term papers and research is sleazy. Buyers and sellers both undermine the educational system, allowing some students to buy their diplomas and cheapening the work produced by everyone else...
Waco works hard to humanize the Branch Davidians, but spends most of its energies condemning the behavior of the ATF. Conspiracies abound as the film jumps from one facet of the conflict to another. This non-linear progression highlights the worst errors...
Those thesaurus-enhanced sentences scarcely sound pretentious when compared to Delbanco's generous use of allusion. References to virtually everything abound--"Leave It To Beaver," imaginary numbers and most classical composers are just a few of the staggering number of items mentioned. Delbanco likes allusions in English, but he loves them in foreign languages. Most European tongues are represented in Old Scores, had the book been any longer Delbanco would have had to use some non-Western quotes for variety. Rather than adding to the texture of the book, they merely provide a superficial veneer of erudition...