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Most impressive of all, however, was the brilliant staging of perhaps the most famous, and most often clichéd, scenes in all of theater: the balcony scene. The director’s skill shines through with his ingenious use of space and his genuine staging in this beautifully-handled scene...

Author: By Jeremy W. Blocker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Revamped ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Offers Memorable Shakespeare Experience | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

Relatively unknown to the Harvard stage, Anne Jump ’01 is outstanding as Juliet. From her first entrance on roller blades, Anne is the perfect young Juliet of the first act. She is brilliant in the moments of developing young love, especially shining in the balcony scene...

Author: By Jeremy W. Blocker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Revamped ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Offers Memorable Shakespeare Experience | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

...world's most famous lefty beard is Fidel Castro's moth-eaten, air-conditioned number, a brilliant and durable trademark that has never been sufficiently backed up by the man's hormones. Rule One: A wispy, unpersuasive beard, through which the facial skin is clearly visible, tends to subvert a "strongman's" machismo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al Gore, and Other Famous Bearded Men | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...PUBLISHER: Mr. Clinton, we were not born yesterday. You have displayed a genius for the presidential imitation of Jimmy Swaggart, the sincerity-dripping prayer-breakfast public pseudo-confession, which is a variation on your brilliant "we've-had-trouble-in-our-marriage-and-leave-it-at-that" formula that got you and Mrs. Clinton through the Gennifer Flowers episode just before the New Hampshire primary in 1992. You know how to tell a story, or seem to tell a story, while skating away from the dirty details, and making it all seem - blink, blink - like a sort of dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Book Publishers Should Have Said to Bill Clinton | 8/9/2001 | See Source »

...ambition is to be an anthropologist. She says she did some fieldwork along those lines by hanging out with U.S.C. sorority girls to prepare for this role. But she knows more about young American bitchiness than she's telling--or showing--in Blonde. Sometimes, as in Election or the brilliant Pleasantville, in which she was a modern teen time-warped back to the bland, sitcom '50s, her wide-set blue eyes turn cold with contempt for square adulthood. Or squinch up in shrewd calculation of how to use (or abuse) the cluelessness of grownups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Steel Behind the Smile | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

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