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...piece for first-years eager to showcase their as yet unheralded talents in composing, orchestrating, acting and singing, it is also a project in which they can have fun, in a way more most other theater groups really can't. The effort of this year's freshman flock, No Bull, provided a case-in-point illustration of this unique situation...
Unlike last year's production, which was largely a send-off of Harvard freshman life, replete with exclusively Harvard jokes, No Bull took on the form of a surprisingly conventional musical comedy of mistaken identity: pleasant if not particularly memorable music, a cheerfully tongue-in-cheek plot and caricatures obviously intended to be as farcical as possible. Set in the fictitious Pueblo Cito, a "backward little town" on the coast of Spain, the story revolves around three principal characters: El Bean (Tim Arnold '00), a famous matador; Hector (Elie Mystal '00), a sleazy politician; and Ana Sanchez (Tonia d'Amelio...
Reminiscent more of a high school theatrical than an HRDC production, No Bull was undeniably amateurish, both in its script and its staging. The sung lyrics were adequately funny, but the spoken dialogue, in its attempts at wittiness, wanted the finesse that characterizes even the most canned Broadway concoctions. The music was for the most part deftly scored and generally quite suitable for the purposes of musical comedy. Unfortunately, it ended up sounding dismayingly cacophonous in the hands of the orchestra, which was consistently squeaky, poorly unified and out of tune. Most of the cast members were obviously not experienced...
...plain tickled that he didn't say "quack," because if he had, I'd jump in a puddle and do that too. Greenspan is the powerful chairman of the Federal Reserve, the nation's central bank, but until recently he was looking like the Rodney Dangerfield of the bull market. Three times in three months he implored investors to rethink their love affair with stocks, starting with his "irrational exuberance" speech in December. Yet stock prices danced defiantly higher atop torrents of cash flowing into mutual funds...
Unfortunately, the secondary source relied on by Tucker is in error. The case, Pugh v. City and Suburban Telephone Association (9 WL Bull 104) was decided by an Ohio District Court. Further, although Tucker's description of the case in factually correct, none of the quotations he cites appear in the actual text of the case. --Jol Silversmith...