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...Wings drown the Oilers, 4-2. Page...
Inevitably the strong performances of the talented leads drown within the boring and inane plot. When Ruddigore was first produced in 1887, the audience began booing and screaming "Bring back the Mikado!" After that, Gilbert and Sullivan had the good sense to trim down the play, and revivals ever since have gone along with these changes. But the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players have chosen to override these changes and restore Ruddigore to its original clunky form. They do a disservice to their own efforts and their talented cast by turning a potentially entertaining theatrical event into a tiresome...
Then three are the songs that drown out your roommate in that next room. Of course there are also the party songs with which everyone seems to unite. Songs and music in general have come to acquire special meaning in our lives...
Sheik Abdullah Shami, spiritual leader of the Islamic Jihad, apologized to Arafat and warned his followers that "the Palestinian street" should not "drown in side battles." Earlier, however, he issued a provocative message, pronouncing that in the future the organization's "guns will not know any difference between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian police." The militants had previously avoided such talk out of fear of igniting a civil...
Kennedy's Children, set in 1974, deals with five survivors of the excesses of the Sixties, who drown their sorrows as they reminisce on a decade gone bad. Each character, illuminated in turn by a spotlight, speaks in a series of monologues. They never interact; only one character ever even moves from his chair. In the hands of a talented actor, this format is a challenge to work with pacing and dynamics to keep the audience's attention. Unfortunately, not all the actors are up to the challenge, and the production soon loses its novelty and goes flat...