Word: downrightness
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...library can be a semi-daunting venture—first there’s the sheer willpower required to get you there, then you must have your ID in hand and your mind geared to working, or at best, not to sleeping—but exiting is a downright harrowing, time-consuming experience. Before you are allowed to return to the lively world outside the somber library, the book-checkers force you to open each pocket of your (often multi-pocketed) bag to look for library materials. The recent announcement of a pilot program to keep Lamont open 24 hours...
...acting is decent, the staging is rough around the edges at best. Some of the set looked quite professionally detailed—the clapboard houses of the town were slightly stylized; however, other elements, from a rather childish looking tree to an unevenly-circular full moon, seemed downright shabby...
Also, not only were the lighting cues simply disconnected with the action but they sometimes seemed even downright manic. Though the finale to act one (Billy’s “Soliloquy”) ended with a nice silhouette against a black background, it took a trippy migration through the entire color wheel to get there. Also through much of the first sequence in town, everyone to the right of the stage was inexplicably caught in a harsh electric pink light very evocative of a striptease...
...long-ago college experiences, are surprised by the poverty of partying on this campus. Yet it is unfair to claim that “Cambridge lacks a social scene for students below or just above the legal drinking age—namely undergrads,” and it is downright peculiar not to mention Boston as a possible destination for socializing...
Life on American Idol has been downright off-key lately. First, an onscreen phone-number foul-up forced Fox to give viewers a second chance to vote. Then Idol judge Paula Abdul was fined and placed on probation for a hit-and-run accident (no one was injured) that happened on a California freeway last December. The good news is that Idol is TV's top-rated show, drawing more than 25 million viewers a pop. Maybe Miss Rush, Rush can spring for a limo...