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...Monticello’s versatility is remarkable, as he comically shreds newspapers in some scenes, but seethes with frenzied rage in others.The minimalist set, created under the direction of designer Beth G. Shields ’10, is comprised mainly of a dining table, a few chairs, and a countertop. It highlights the existentialist nature of the play. Sound and lighting are also used sparsely by Stone and Lighting Designer Michael W. Zellmann-Rohrer ’10, but effectively, to heighten the emotions evoked from the audience.Though the play is hindered at several points by contrived acting...
Before we had them on every countertop, computers held such promise for us in medicine: doctors and patients live in a world of painful, pressing questions, the answers might be in there. Or so we thought. Twenty nine years from the night I first sat in a hospital in front of a computer screen the questions persist. And I still don't see the profit-maximizing, cost-controlling physician with his nationwide computer treating patients any better than the great physicians I've known have. With pen and paper, personal commitment to each patient and judgment born of practical experience...
...anyone with a filled-to-the-gills closet knows, the things we accumulate can become oppressive. With all this stuff piling up and never quite getting put away, we're no longer huddled masses yearning to breathe free; we're huddled masses yearning to free up space on a countertop. Which is why people are so intrigued by the 100 Thing Challenge, a grass-roots movement in which otherwise seemingly normal folks are pledging to whittle down their possessions to a mere 100 items...
...tempting to drag others’ clothes haphazardly from washers as soon as they stop spinning, and throw them out of the way. It takes only an extra 30 seconds to remove the load carefully, instead of dumping piles of dripping pants, underwear and towels onto a dust covered countertop (losing a sock in the process). On the flip side, the average drying cycle lasts about 56 minutes. No one expects fellow students to time their loads to the minute, returning to fetch clean clothes at the exact moment of completion. Most of us run on incredibly tight schedules...
...deepen the connection, Viking has added new product lines. Refrigerators came along in 1996, cookware, cutlery and wine cellars in 2001 and countertop appliances in 2003. The latest innovation is a combination steam and convection oven...