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...fast-paced exchange of wits, Kapusta, Onstad, Gerlach, Nip, and Matthew B. Bird ’10 (who plays the gardener Antonio) skillfully express the difficulty of deceiving each other on the spot, eliciting laughter from the audience. Instead of setting the opera in the 18th century, director Vincent chose to set this production of “Figaro” in the 1960s. Her choice adds a layer of complexity to the work by drawing a parallel between the women’s liberation movements and the importance that the female characters have in cooking up mischief as much...
...She’s terrifically qualified, and they chose her because she’s the best person for the job,” said Sheldon Hackney, a former president of the University of Pennsylvania, where Faust was a history professor and director of the university’s women’s studies program...
...nail. Speaking to the Associated Press, Feith took umbrage at descriptions that his work was "inappropriate." Said he: "The policy office has been smeared for years by allegations that its pre-Iraq-war work was somehow 'unlawful' or 'unauthorized.'" He has a point: it was the Bush Administration that chose Feith's reports over those generated by its $1 billion-a-week intelligence operation. Feith's work was most certainly authorized - from the very...
...almost inevitable. These are the varieties. Stimson of the Pentagon took the false-impression route: he is so sorry that some people might have inexplicably got the impression that he meant what he obviously did mean when he said what he said. The Grey's Anatomy actor, Isaiah Washington, chose the therapeutic option. He can neither "defend nor explain" what he said, and "there are issues I obviously need to examine within my own soul," and on and on. "Can I stop now?" you can almost hear him pleading to his bosses at ABC. "No!" they reply with a crack...
...programming. They simultaneously served as tastemakers and barometers for the listening public. At least that was the going logic until August 1, 1981. At 12:15 a.m., MTV began broadcasting on the air and once again the sky was falling for radio. To unceremoniously hammer the point home, MTV chose to show The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” as its first music video. Clad in black pleather suits, the band members were only too happy to dance a funeral jig on the grave of radio. “Who wants...