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...such problems are small considering the art form's exquisite grace, its awesome dramatic power and delicate beauty. In Kabuki, there is a world of meaning in the sweep of a fan, the cast of an eye or the crook of a finger. What is outlandish about a song-dance-skill like that? -By Michael Walsh
Earlier this year, the same recruiter, James Crook, met with interested freshmen at the Union for four hours, said Catherine L. Cattan '85, who attended the meeting...
...before taking the federal job. He is intensely devout, both as a Roman Catholic and a conservative Republican. Says one colleague: "He may have felt his credibility was on the line with this car-theft case, and he couldn't live with the idea that there was a crook out there who wasn't being caught." To Kennedy, explains another coworker, "black is black, white is white, and good should triumph over evil...
...little white spots that move in geometrically predestined directions across an oversized etch-a-sketch board. The spots, typically upper middle class suburban or uptown New York spots, meander, speedup and decelerate as they course ineluctably through the turns Ultimately, the design ties itself off with a sudden bizarre crook--a child gets shredded by a ski lift, a husband is shot by his wife in a race around the living room or a fatal car crash occurs. Sometimes things turn out well. The sum is an impoverished literary Calvinism of the two car garage...
...whispering hyperhole, evem drooloing a little; YOUR SEARING GUT-WRENCING WORK IS THE LITERALLY EVENT OF THE DECADE . . .SPELLBINDING . . . MAGNIFICENT. . . A WASHDAY MIRACLE, WHITER THAN WHITE . . . A NEW STANDARD BY WHICH ALL THOROUGHBRED DRIVING MACHINES WILL BE MEASURED . . . I WILL NEVER LIE TO YOU . . . I AM NOT A CROOK. I WILL BALANCE THE FEDERAL BUDGET . . . WE'LL GET MARRIED AS SOON AS THE DIVORCE COMES THORUGH . . . such episodes leave a man feeling like a fool in the morning they are the effusions of the moment, wild blossoms with a short but extravagant life...