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...Some of the changes in the script for the Loeb Ex production were necessary given the space and the cast: for example, Brutus had one servant instead of many. Some were a little more drastic. The adaptation eliminated one of the Triumvirate entirely, and cut the speech of another to a few lines. The result was that the play was more narrowly focused on Brutus and Cassius than it is in some versions, an interesting shift. But the plot would have been more compelling with a little less redundancy of scenes in the first half (in large part Shakespeare?...
...that after all these years of training to be an offensive lineman and the constant workout on his stomach, he can feel neither satiated nor hungry; he just eats because he knows he has to. In a world of dieting and exercise where being slim is sought after with drastic measures, these guys have the opposite goals in mind: to get bigger, to get stronger, and to become unsurpassable. Does society’s perfect weight affect these men striving for their own perfect weight? “Linemen develop these complexes,” Rodger says...
...most drastic change considered was stripping the UC of its responsibility for party grants, and instead delegating this authority to each House Committee (HoCo...
Perhaps it’s common knowledge that the effects of drastic worldwide climate shift would be bad. Real bad. Speculation about what the future holds includes radical theories about the possible changes we could expect to see in our lifetime...
...less tangible. There is, it seems, a growing romance with the untouched continent, the site of many - if not most - of the world's last truly pristine landscapes. International treaties preserve Antarctica for scientific research and tourism. And, unlike the Arctic, the Antarctic has yet to see many drastic effects of climate change. Visitors can still see cliffs of ice and the brilliant light blue of icebergs. They can see humpback whales and leopard seals cruise alongside their Zodiacs, or watch penguins chasing each other along the shore and pecking at visitors' boots...