Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) received a call from someone reporting that a suite in Longfellow Hall had been broken into and ransacked. Upon arrival the Officer requested a Detective...
...three characters that emerge between play-episodes are just as humorous, if also as two-dimensional, as cartoon characters. The players call each other by their real names--Erik, Will, and Waka ("real" is relative on and off the stage)--and portray Shakespearean actors in the same way that Bugs Bunny portrays a rabbit: They play caricatures, not characters. The "actors" are shy, ironic, angst-ridden, occasionally obnoxious and grossly human. Their closest Shakespearean analogues are the Rude Mechanicals in A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...have appreciated the sight gags and lowbrow humor that comprise so much of this play. Traditional gags and constant physical comedy alone make this play funny, but rich word-play quickens and deepens the humor. The writers who created The Compleat Works are clearly Shakespearean scholars. "That which we call a nose, by any other name, would still smell," philosophizes one actor in the ten-minute version of Romeo and Juliet at the play's inception. Allusions to contemporary pop culture not only demonstrate Shakespeare's relevance, but allow the audience to play along with the actors' jokes. However...
...shocked public, and possibly to L.A. prosecutors seeking closure, the trial of Buford Furrow will be about hate. The connections to the white-supremacist, anti-semitic Aryan Nations, the Order and Christian Identity. The picture of Furrows in a Nazi uniform. The reported explanation: A "wake-up call to America to kill Jews." Yet America may be wise enough ?- or stubborn enough ?- not to wake up anything...
...difference between them. Fortunately for us, third-party developers are changing that by making programs - usually free ones -- that live on top of your browser and give it new features, new functions, and even a whole new look and feel. There should be a name for them - call them plug...