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...speech is vintage Rudnick -- a party wine with a bouquet of sentiment and the kick of rude truth. To the tart social wit of gay writers from Oscar Wilde to Joe Orton he adds irrepressible high spirits -- a tonic when so much of literature has the terminal glums. This Renaissance jester is a yea-sayer, a missionary for joy. "Usually when I'm asked why I write," says Rudnick, 35, "I reply, 'To avoid a day job.' But the truth is that there are people in real life I want to honor. It's easy to write about despair...
...result of this court case and the images Philipon sketched, the pear became a widely-recognized satirical symbol of king Louis Philippe. Another pear image in exhibit is "Kindly Take Your Filth Elsewhere, You Brats!" by Auguste Bouquet. This colorful lithograph depicts children scribbling images of a pear on the wall of a woman's house. The woman leans out the window scolding the children. The piece's ambiguity as to whether "fifth" refers to the scribbling or to the king himself heightens the satiric impact...
...life's love and condemned to the serving life, Tita finds in cooking the steam of sorcery. When Pedro marries her sister Rosaura (Yareli Arizmendi) simply to be near Tita, she bakes a wedding cake that leaves the celebrators sick or spellbound. When Pedro dares to give her a bouquet of roses, she presses them ecstatically to her chest -- the scratches are as close as she can get to Pedro's caresses -- and then prepares a heady quail with rose-petal sauce. Her culinary witchcraft will affect many births, marriages and deaths. But they will not stanch her tears...
...about three Victorian women explorers that became one of the most widely produced plays of the '80s; David Feldshuh's Miss Evers' Boys, a drama about government experiments on black victims of syphilis that was a 1992 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in drama; and Overmyer's The Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin & Louis Chauvin, a musing on the turn-of-the-century black composer and an unknown peer that arrives off- Broadway this week. The company's longtime artistic director, Stan Wojewodski Jr., moved up to Yale two years ago as dean of the drama school and artistic director...
Standing in front of a purple curtain on the Hasty Pudding stage, President Jake Kaufmann '93 and Vice President of the Cast Adam S. Geyer '93 presented Goldberg with the traditional Pudding Pot and a bouquet of flowers...