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...This cycle boasts at least two star-making performances. The 24-year-old David Oyelowo is a magnificent Henry VI. His Queen meanwhile is the terrifying Fiona Bell, whose Margaret moves from manipulative beauty to a crazed outcast, dragging her slaughtered son's bones around in a sack. Earlier, Samuel West and particularly RSC regular David Troughton proved electric as Richard II and his nemesis Bolingbroke (later Henry IV). Desmond Barritt is a sad, lyrical Falstaff, and newcomer William Houston exciting but mannered as Henry...
...foodie for the American-Statesman in Austin, Texas, reviewing a Truluck's steak-and-seafood house last summer. "The noise is so overwhelming that it ruined the dining experience." Michael Bauer, food editor for the San Francisco Chronicle, carries a sound meter to rate restaurants on a four-bell scale. "New places in San Francisco often measure 75 to 80 decibels on my meter," he says. (Normal conversation is around 60.) "To carry on a conversation at that level, you have to raise your voice." Or scream...
...with “Undergrads” taking on, as its press release labels it, the “strange developmental purgatory that is the college freshman experience.” But alas; “Undergrads” comes closer to “Saved By the Bell: The College Years” than it does to “Daria” in finding humor in the maelstrom of social and academic changes that accompany the first year of college...
...ceremony of the patriarchy, if you like. Gillette Blue Blades sponsored other ceremonies: prizefights on black-and-white television, the boxing-ring bell orchestrated into the jingle... "To LOOK sharp DING/ ev'ry time you shave!" I cherish a hazy recollection, the haze being snow on the television set, perhaps, and the bluish cigarette smoke layered above the ring - of Sugar Ray Robinson throwing the most beautiful punch ever thrown, a straight jab, pure lightning that sent his man into another dimension, as if used boxers and used blades alike would spin in black space forever...
...fighting and political concerns that kept outsiders away for so long also acted as a kind of bell jar. River life has changed little since the Mekong was a major artery of French Indochina, when mustachioed messieurs shot crocodiles from steamboats while mademoiselles sipped fine wines and snacked on tinned delicacies. The journey begins in Phnom Penh, a city of wide boulevards where the Mekong meets the Tonle Sap River. The first leg starts at dawn?a six-hour ride upriver on a modern ferry to the town of Kratie. For the best views, pick a spot on the roof...