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...worst of these stereotypes is the character of Ai Swallow, a female Japanese wannabe Samurai played by David J. Andersson ’09. He does what he can, but at some point the sword twirling, cries of “Samurai Chop,” and bowing add up to a critical mass. His duet with romantic interest Will U. Bullowme (David W. Ingber ’07) is the show’s low point...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Commandments' An Uneasy Success | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

...audience wants to leave satisfied—not challenged—and where every joke has the same goal: to make some portion of the audience chuckle. There’s no discernable difference between puns on someone’s “cannon-BALLS” and Ai Swallow’s mixed up r’s and l’s. And when neither joke is particularly funny, things start to get uncomfortable...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Commandments' An Uneasy Success | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

While the thought of smart robotic insects may seem frightening, this is not Steven Spielberg’s “AI.” Wood wants these robots to able to perform tasks on their own, perhaps delivering information from one point to another. Moreover, the MAVs’ small size limits the processing power that the devices can carry...

Author: By Anupriya Singhal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Not Your Grandma’s Robot | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...then only in bedrooms. But I'll give Lulu-Louise a tragic-happy ending. At the climax of the 1930 Prix de beaut?, she is a movie star sitting in a screening room about to watch the rushes of her big song. (It's the sad, teasing "Je n'ai qu'un Amour c'est Toi," and, in another 100th birthday present, is covered on the new CD by World Musette, a Paris band fronted by the cartoonist Robert Crumb.) Her jealous lover creeps into the projection booth and, from there, shoots her dead. Brooks' face goes lifeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lulu-Louise at 100 | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...luck and looking to fight off the onslaught of the advancing freak show.” In the midst of this rivalry, one of the circus’s star acrobats develops a verboten love for one of the freaks, a failed Japanese Samurai-cum-sword-swallower fittingly named Ai Swallows. “The Ancient Tent Commandments forbid any mixing of the big-tops and freaks,” said Warland L. “Trey” Kollmer ’07, one of the script’s co-writers. “That?...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pudding To Riff on ‘Tent Commandments’ | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

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