Word: acted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspension comes easily when Alice is imaginatively introduced at tea. The players move in slow motion, and Mrs. Lidell (China Forbes) frequently breaks into random song about the nitty-gritties of the ceremony. The scene is clever and successful--a strong opening for a first act that later drags...
MANY Radcliffe alumnae and administrators would like the college to reverse this trend away from undergraduates. Although Harvard is co-educational, these people believe there are still ways that Radcliffe can act as a support group for undergraduate women...
...when Mason performed similar material (without mention of Dinkins) this summer at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the audience did not respond with outrage. They laughed. Mason's derogatory remarks about Blacks and Hispanics were just "part of the act...
This vast discrepancy reveals that humor that is funny in one context can be offensive in another. A small audience with shared experiences and expectations takes Mason's act to be a parody of old-time American Judaism. A racially-charged electorate, on the other hand, isn't ready to joke about racial or ethnic stereotypes...
...Defense. No one has considered academic collegiality in the same league as business combinations since the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed in 1890. Obviously education holds a special place in American society, and the pursuit of knowledge essential to a democracy has no readily tangible--or easily comparable--costs. Thus, investigated university officials say that "cooperation" in financial matters befits their high-minded enterprise, and further serves the overall public good of maintaining access to education independent of cost...