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Before the Loeb was constructed, student productions were a highly self-sufficient affair...
...Alan Palmer said. “It was a little disappointing that we were not able to make the team race national championship regatta, but if we had to choose between the fleet- and team-racing contests, we would always choose the fleet-racing contest. It is a bigger affair and one which we focus on throughout the season...
...FOREIGN AFFAIR...
Martel writes with a smooth, almost stoned detachment, cool to the touch, which gives a distant, unreal feeling to a story that's already dangerously weird and abstract. The taxidermist's play turns out to be a Beckettian affair about a monkey and a donkey, Beatrice and Virgil, who live on a giant shirt (yes, a shirt). Beatrice and Virgil are lost, shell-shocked survivors of a massacre of animals by humans, an "abomination" they can refer to only as "the Horrors." Thus the Holocaust, denied entrance at the front door, sneaks in through the window...
...also differ vastly in style. Wale relies on flow and samples while Cudi lays down his own original, if less-innovative, beats. However, on Sunday all three artists proved incapable of consistently commanding attention, leaving this year’s Yardfest to be a rather stale and second-rate affair...