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...advantage of the set. When Mad Margaret enters at the end of the first act, she waltzes all over the stage, revealing her violent hatred of the goody-goody Rose Maybud. Sommers as Mad Margaret belts out her lines in a clear resounding voice and her chaotic motions brilliantly convey her characters madness. Also hysterical is the etiquette scene between Rose Maybud and the sailor Richard--known fondly as Dick--during which Dick proclaims his love for Rose and she responds by referring to her manners book. Their voices blend well in this scene and during other songs throughout...
...marching to show that we as students, particularly Black students, recognize the scholarship as an important recruiting tool," said Rob Harrington, financial chairman of the Black Student Alliance. "Hopefully by showing student support we will convey to the administration that everyone is interested...
...decade. Author Anthony Burgess recalls teaching in the U.S. at various times in the 1970s. "American college students have said, 'Like 1984, man,' when asked not to smoke pot in the classroom or advised gently to do a little reading." Now merely mentioning the date can convey muzzy criticism of whatever the speaker happens to dislike: advertising, computers, beeper phones, freeways and domed stadiums...
...genteel" class inhabited by his parents and their friends: "Practically the whole family income goes in keeping up appearances." Unlike most who rebel from the worlds of their childhood, Eric became hypercritical of himself as well; his behavior during his early years, his adult memories of this period, both convey the peculiar sense that he considered himself not good enough for a style of life he disliked. The Blairs kept up appearances by enrolling their son, at reduced tuition, in St. Cyprian's, an institution that rigorously prepared boys for the great public schools. Eric, 8, was caned...
...program worthy of Potemkin at his most imaginative. Confronted with the dilapidation and general ruin of the buildings he is assigned to preserve and develop, Gliedman has found an ingenious solution. He pastes vinyl decals over the broken windows of the city's abandoned slum tenements to convey an illusion of cheery life inside. Some of the decals look like curtains, some like Venetian blinds; some even contain illusory flowerpots, where illusory geraniums blossom in an illusory sunshine...