Word: beggar
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...time to let go of Powell and McCain - both men make Bush look like a beggar. But if Bush is confident enough to play it dull, maybe he's cocky enough to taunt his father's ghosts and pull a fast one on the press. Not ideologically dangerous prospects like pro-choicers Pataki and Ridge, or personally dangerous ones like swinging single Fred Thompson. But there are dark horses still...
...side characters are truly outstanding. Sol Kim '02-previously seen on the Harvard stage in the Lowell House Opera production of The Beggar's Opera-in the role of Dame Hannah, Rose's spinster Aunt, puts so much comic energy into her part that she lights up every scene in which she appears. Furthermore, it is easy to realize that Kim is enjoying herself on stage and having a great time as Hannah, allowing her to avoid succumbing to potential silliness, as sporadically happens to Karoun Demirjian '03 in playing the village lunatic, Mad Margaret (although it seems to have...
...that they can be observed--might just work. This is exactly the technique used by the Institute for Advanced Theater Training in their production of Bertolt Brecht's St. Joan of the Stockyards three weeks ago in the Loeb Ex, and it works wonders. To feel sympathy for a beggar on the stage and then have that beggar approach you to ask for money forces you to acknowledge your own feelings. To feel compassion for the central villain of the play and then have him ask you personally, in front of everyone in the theater, if you judge...