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...yeah--totally. The last play I did at Harvard was Burn This in Winthrop House. I also did a shepherd play directed by David Wheeler and a play over at the North Theatre Company. But I really would have done more--I knew people who were doing like two and three shows a semester. I would have done that if I would have been guaranteed to stay there the whole semester. But college theater is fun--doing student directed stuff is great because everyone gets in there together...
...runner, a forest dweller, who can sense his approach across continental divides. He tracks her for months across the distance of seasons; she flees, easily able to stay ahead, despairing, besotted. He follows, implacable, daft with love. It's not easy to make something like this catch fire and burn to the end, but Bass does...
This boy is too young to feel any pity for the tormented woman. But he does report his grandmother's opinion that Old Whore is getting off lightly: "They should burn the bitch on Heaven Lamp like they did in the old days." And he describes what happened to a woman condemned to Heaven Lamp: "She was hung naked upside down above a wood fire whose flames could barely touch her scalp, and two men flogged away at her with whips made of bulls' penises." The release of death usually came "a day and a night" later...
...result is a friendlier, less hostile IRS, it might be worth it. Tom Quigley, an IRS public-affairs officer, showed up at the Manhattan office with an IRS flag he had specially made for the occasion. "Actually, I made two and one was absconded--maybe to burn," he said. And then, remembering the spirit of the day, he added quickly, "Though it might look nice in a college dorm." It's not quite the adrenaline rush the Revenue boys got after bringing down Al Capone, but it's a start...
...husband was a successful businessman, and her father left her an inheritance. With money to burn, Gardner began making forays to Europe in the 1880s to "acquire the best." Her haul included 290 paintings, 280 pieces of sculpture, 460 pieces of furniture and much, much more. It is fitting that the centerpiece of her collection was Rape of Europa, because Gardner had her way with the Continent in much the same way that thieves would one day have their way with her collection. With this, she built a temple of finery, personally designing a 15th century Venetian-style palace featuring...