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This is not the fault of Aaron Sompong, whose clear voice and humorous mugs bring the unsatisfied Prince to life. Sompong has some genuinely funny moments, as when he mournfully sings "Prayer for a Duck" with a look somewhere between grief and self-disgust. He also does an excellent job of avoiding the trap of lapsing into sentimental cheesiness. Instead, his Pippin is slightly more bitter, cynical and world-weary...
Keegan is instinctively sympathetic to warriors and ruthlessly unromantic about the specifics of their work. He remembers "the look of disgust that passed over the face of a highly distinguished curator of one of the greatest collections of arms and armor in the world when I casually remarked to him that a common type of debris removed from the flesh of wounded men by surgeons in the gunpowder age was broken bone and teeth from neighbors in the ranks. He had simply never considered what was the effect of the weapons about which he knew so much, as artifacts...
...disgust that Democrats express over the witch-hunt, the shoe could just as easily be on the other foot. Previous nominees Douglas Ginsburg and Robert Bork, who suffered equally vituperative attacks from the left, can attest to that. But the current campaign has been remarkably effective in preventing the Clinton Administration from getting policy initiatives off the ground...
...insightful edginess that, when he chooses to display it, can raise his sitcom work above the level of stereotype. In one Martin episode Lawrence is in a shoe store when a white customer mistakes him for a store employee. "I don't work here," he says, with the disgust that many professional blacks have felt when they are mistaken for the help. When Lawrence invites friends over to watch boxing, he sports a FREE MIKE TYSON T shirt. All this material is part of the reason Martin won an N.A.A.C.P. Image Award...
...bored," he explains, "You've got to say something interesting." Lowering his voice he continues, "you can't look homeless, or sound pathetic. Some people just say the same thing over and over `Spare Change, Spare Change...Help the homeless help themselves." He shakes his head in disgust...