Word: appeals
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...staff erroneously includes a call for a lower federal drinking age in an otherwise acceptable appeal for a realistic College drinking policy. Encouraging universities to tolerate safe, small-scale drinking even when students under 21 may participate is reasonable. But calling for a reduction of the drinking age to 18 is irresponsible. There are strong social pressures on those in the 18 to 21 age range to drink; the law is one of few countervailing forces, encouraging young adults to think twice before using alcohol in these formative years...
Director Kathryn Walker's choice of cuts in the C.K. Williams translation make this production an affair of many monologues. Tim Foley and Scott M. Brown, as the first and second messengers, deliver their hefty chunks of script with appeal. Foley's description of the first sortie on Mt. Cithaeron is proof of a working knowledge of the rhetorical value of adynata (women suckling wolves, milk spurting from the ground, and other such impossibilities...
...things don't quite pay off: The red flag planted by the speaking Maenad (presumably to signal bloody devastation) might have never been unfurled; the novitiate (Alison Howe on 10/30) sitting on a pillow, singing the Oro supplex, is a bit much. But the production boasts tremendous visual appeal, thanks to a wonderfully spare set by Helen Shaw '98, spiffy costumes by Jessica Jackson '99 and--especially at the play's beginning and end--skillful and tricky lighting, designed by Alan Symonds...
...recordings, it is more obvious on this one because of the number of misses and the expectation that this would be the album for G. Love to firmly establish himself. But let's concentrate on the hits--songs with a startlingly fresh sound and a very natural appeal. These are mostly the tunes written primarily by G. Love himself and performed with the Special Sauce--exactly the formula for the goodness of the first two albums...
...President Boris Yeltsin, who in Soviet times had observed the day alongside his Politburo colleagues saluting passing missiles, made a TV appeal for an end to divisions, and then hurried off to Beijing for a meeting with leaders of ? uh, the Politburo. The only part of Lenin?s legacy still intact on the 80th anniversary is the date: The Bolsheviks swept away the Czar?s 10-month Georgian calendar, commemorating their ?Great October Socialist Revolution? on November...