Word: bitterness
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...first-years sell their souls and senior year early on to honors-only majors like history and literature or social studies when they declare their concentration. Other (wiser?) first-years hedge their bets and major in English, economics or government, where they can keep their options open to the bitter end, and still graduate if they drop their theses at the last minute...
This lack of coloring in his delivery also made John relentlessly predictable, robbing him of the sneaky sexual danger that he must have for Oleanna to work. John is written to resemble a basic solution, bitter and slippery. To present him so broadly robs him of the charisma that even Carol concedes he possesses. She has, after all, taken two semesters of his classes, so she must have had some reason for coming back...
...cynical viewer into the play. In his battered black suit, derby hat and worn-out umbrella, Burt-Kinderman's Jacques seems a cross between Charlie Chaplin and one of Beckett's existentially confused wanderers from Waiting for Godot. Her razor-sharp portrayal electrifies the play. Deftly handling Jacques's bitter one-liners, she also does an unusually effective job with the play's famous "Seven Ages of Man" monologue...
DIED. ALBERT SHANKER, 68, tough but deft leader of the American Federation of Teachers; of cancer; in New York City. A respected champion of high education standards, he was demonized in 1968 for leading a long, bitter strike against a New York City decentralization plan that cut teachers' rights...
...consists of an anteroom where visitors take off their shoes and socks and a U-shaped main room filled with six tons of talcum powder. A single candle placed around the corner from the entrance provides the only light in the dark, dusty chamber, which is filled with the bitter smell of natural gas. Although the work's title warns of an impending explosion, made plausible given the smell, exposed flame and ankle-deep powder covering the floor, the piece seems unable to provoke anxiety in its visitors. It's just too sexy...