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...Bah Bah Bah...
...spring are off too. Inventories ballooned as customers shunned boring products with high prices. And because Nike cranks out an entirely new product line every year, it has been powerless to stop the damage. "You are always six months away from disaster," says Nike's chairman and shoe-bah, Phil Knight. Nike's earnings projections have been dropping like so many Tiger Woods putts. Worse, the company's top shoe salesman, fella named Jordan, is threatening to retire to run his own little business...
Witness the statement of Affleck's character when the guys from Southie visit the Bow: "So this is a Hahvahd bah. I thought there'd be equations and shit on the wall." There are no equations on the wall, of course (maybe if they'd gone to the Grille...), but there is the unpleasant encounter with the grad student eager to embarrass those he considers his intellectual inferiors...
Against such a solid field of performances, though, the show's standouts come from several of the purely comedic roles. Jason R. Mills '99 delivers the show's most delightful comic performance as Pooh-Bah, the state advisor who has taken upon himself all of Titipu's offices except that of executioner. Managing to make one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most enduring and well-known characters unusually likable, Mills retains the character's indispensable stuffiness: "I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmic primordial atomic globule," Pooh-Bah sniffs genially, as he explains his haughtiness to Nanki...
...forgetful those guys can be. I've seen Chicago Hope. I mean, I can picture them sewing me back up and then having some scrub nurse say to the rest of the team, 'Do you hear a noise coming from somewhere over by the door--a sort of bah-BAAM, bah-BAAM, bah-BAAM...