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...radical deletions or insertions. Sets are appropriately dark and stark. The pace is brisk, sometimes to the point where speeches seem dashed off -- less expounded than expelled. But the rapidity mostly works. Hamlet's "To be or not to be ." soliloquy comes in at a hurtling but affecting clip; Fiennes seems less concerned with weighing alternatives than with feverishly fending off suicide. He makes an athletic-looking prince, and he manages to appear beautifully, brainlessly exultant in the final scene, with fencing foil in hand-savoring a duel that he considers mere sport but that will bring his world crashing...
...chance to be a fashion plate? The gray polyester pants seemed to cling to one for dear life, as if the wearer were their last chance for redemption. There was also the natty dark blue polyester vest, which made me look like a Christmas pudding, and the rakish gray clip-on tie made from some fabric whose origins I've yet to divine. Finally, honor of honors, I also had my very own name...
Kennedy's wit is astounding; she starts the paper off at a brisk clip, with a brief, but precise, justification of her topic: "Every dog must have its day: this thesis is about Rousseau's dog." "Kennedy goes on to explain her treatment of the poor creature, "By 'dog' I will mean, first, the dog as metaphor, the dog as such in Rousseau's thought. Second, there are Rousseau's actual dogs, of whom he was very fond...
...presentation. Sarah comes of as unassuming and natural, aided perhaps by the fact that the interviews and the CD-ROM itself being put together by her best friend Crystal Heald. From her thoughts, in her gentle Candian accent, about the different cities on tour, to an amusing home video clip of Sarah playing the accordion (badly), the CD-ROM is a great chance for the fan to "get to know" McLachlan...
Harvard started the 2000-meter race at a strong clip, building a two seat lead on Princeton (and significantly more on MIT) by the 1000-meter mark...