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...skit, two of the many non-South-Asian performers discussed the glamorous, festive image of India. Stepping off the plane in India, the two predict lots of colorful dresses, vibrant music, and energetic and suggestive dancers gesturing to each other from occasionally gender-segregated groups. Instead, they find a beggar. Typical of the show’s comedic flair, the beggar that the two encounter turns out to be a dancer on a Bollywood film set, confirming the two’s belief that in India, as in “Ghungroo,” there is no poverty...
...public bus stand in front of Police Chief Headquarters, waiting to ferry police trainers and students to the academy about three miles away. The blast, which could be heard at least a mile away, was detonated by a suicide bomber. Investigators say the bomber was pretending to be a beggar, and tried to get on the bus to collect alms from the passengers, a common practice on public transport. When the police stopped him from mounting the steps, he detonated the bomb, which appears to have been packed with ball bearings. The force of the explosion was enough to peel...
...resist the regulation of business and markets, often even when we would personally stand to benefit from that regulation. But you could do worse than to start with the fact that for more than 70 years, we have played a game whose object is to corner a market and beggar our neighbors. Every year pundits decry video games like Bully or Grand Theft Auto, yet our first introduction to one of business's most predatory, illegal practices is through a widely loved game with adorable doggy and thimble pieces. It's as if someone had invented a children's board...
However, he did go along with some pranks. After he was elected to the Lampoon, he and other newly-elected Lampoon writers had to pull pranks around campus as part of “Fools’ Week.” Updike dressed up as a blind beggar in the Yard, while fellow ’Poonsters dressed as priests nearby and cheated him of his money...
...pause into “Rough For Theater 1,” with the transition marked simply by a lighting change and Fishburn making his slow way down from the pedestal to the stage to play the blind fiddler A. He was joined by Wilner as B, a crippled beggar. The two try to make a connection, wedding B’s sight with A’s mobility, but ultimately B becomes cruel to A, and both are left alone. This was the most humorous of the plays, despite the subject matter—as well as the most...