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...Best Actor in a Supporting Role" goes to both veteran Fenton and new-comer Lee Poulis '02 as Don Alhambra, the Grand Inquisitor. Fenton carries off the part of the enterprising, officious windbag with the perfect amount of dull pomposity and cornball silliness and is matched by Kristin Brouwer in the part of the saucy but snotty, Duchess. Poulis mixes equal parts stodgy bureaucrat, fiendish Inquisitor and lecherous old man to take the typical Gilbert and Sullivan "uptight official" role to new, uproariously deadpan heights...
When Jimmy Siahae hit the ground, that was the end. The Muslim mob never let him up again. Their weapons were dull--bamboo staves, kitchen knives, metal spikes--but their hatred was sharp. Siahae was 45, a Christian from the eastern Indonesian island of Ambon, suspected of attacking their mosque. As the terrible retribution began, Siahae didn't have a prayer...
...push for men to express their feelings presumes that we have feelings, and we do have a few, but they remain submerged, and the airing of them often violates their authenticity. We are, as a gender, as dull as we seem. Contrary to the claptrap of the men's movement, men gain power through not talking. "The strength of the genie," said poet Richard Wilbur, "comes from being in a bottle." I'm no biologist, but my guess is that the male human animal was programmed for silence. One can make us talk counter to our genetic makeup...
...watch. They masterfully communicate a lifestyle on the fine line between aquatic and terrestrial human. With every move and noise they make, lots of twitches and sounds, they seem increasingly alive. I found it easier to believe that Leslie and Sarah might have actually existed than the ageless, incessantly dull drones, Charlie and Nancy...
...household. The program notes state that a critic even went so far as to call it a "joke in bad taste." Strauss's reply was "I did not mean to make fun. What can be more serious a matter than married life?" Strauss's domestic life is anything but dull. In the span of 24 hours the composer had to deal with an irate wife whom he also finds ravishingly beautiful, the howling of his infant son, and the pressure to compose...