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...Byron's love poetry (Arcadia); James Joyce and Vladimir Lenin (Travesties). "Tom said to me once that he decides on one play, and then shortly after decides on a different one," says Trevor Nunn, director of Rock 'n' Roll and several other Stoppard plays. "And then he lets them crash into each other." The Coast of Utopia, his nearly nine-hour trilogy about Russia's radical political thinkers of the 19th century, was a relatively straight-ahead historical journey (which is why this critic, at least, didn't rank it among his best), but it was an unexpectedly huge...
...biohazard suit. Yellow (Elevated): Moderate chance. Stay in your room and try a week of monkhood—abstinence is key. Blue (Guarded): General risk of infection—put that itch cream back in the medicine cabinet where it belongs. If you’re feeling adventurous, crash a Union dorm party. Green (Low): No parties or mites to be found—unless someone slipped them in your LSAT book?...
...Yale, Young visited both colleges one last time. While at Yale, Young was out on a launch with Bulldogs lightweight crew coach during an afternoon practice when a Yale heavyweight boat collided with a sculler going the wrong direction on the Housatonic River. The sculler was injured in the crash.“It was kind of a traumatic experience,” Young said. “We had to pull his single out of the water, and it was like Jaws. I had fun with the kids there, they were friendly, but that was kind of a little...
...cigarette puffs. Her hatred for him, and what he did to her, leads Karen into liaisons out of desperation and revenge. She thinks that robust Sgt. Warden (Burt Lancaster) may be the man she searched for in all those other men. In the famous beach scene, as waves crash over them, they lie down and she rolls on top of him, in command. "Nobody ever kissed me the way you do," she purrs ("kiss" being a metaphor for a closer form of contact). Suddenly he's proprietary, wondering how many men she has "kissed." "Can't you give...
...listen closely to the two-minute radio address that 12-year-old Graeme Frost delivered last week for the Democrats, you can hear the lingering effects of the 2004 car crash that put him into a coma for a week and left one of his vocal cords paralyzed. "Most kids my age probably haven't heard of CHIP, the Children's Health Insurance Program," he says in a voice that sounds weak and stressed. "But I know all about it, because if it weren't for CHIP, I might not be here today...