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...issue: if people want to spend their money supporting candidates or making TV ads about a candidate's environmental record, that is their prerogative. But as the week began, it was not McConnell who posed the greatest threat. It was, of all people, Minnesota Democrat Paul Wellstone, the most earnest, make-the-world-a-better-place Senator...
...lighting the play, one might expect oversized puppets to dance across the stage. This effect is heightened or perhaps created by the cartoonish acting of nearly the entire ensemble. Leading the pack is Brooks Ashmanskas as Amphitryon’s much-maligned slave Sosia. A dim-witted but earnest fellow, Ashmanskas’ Sosia reacts to his mistreatment at the hands of Mercury (and then practically everyone else in the play) with a bafflement and foolhardiness worthy of a character like Goofy. His attempts to elicit laughter from the audience with overwrought physical antics, while they might be successful with...
...Perfect at Feelings.’” While she read, a dry sense of the absurd rose out of many of her poems, making me realize that I had probably read them unfairly. She showed us where the jokes were, and her relaxed and earnest reading style contrasted well with that of Trethewey. Shaughnessy did read some of her characteristic sticky-wicket phrases with the undue candor that I was afraid of, but at times her reading fully vindicated her work by confirming a tone of levity instead of bravado...
...With the New Those earnest eyes, those wire-frame glasses, that smug deportment: for a while now Richard Li has been synonymous with all things new?media, economy, paradigms, whatever. Last year the boy in the cyberbubble won kudos for leveraging his essentially worthless assets?DigiScents? Network of the World? A phony Stanford degree??into one, very real telco when he paid $29 billion in stock and cash for Hong Kong Telecom. What nobody realized then was that this khaki-clad scion who embodied all the Web concepts people used to act like they believed in?does anyone remember Metcalf...
...issue: if people want to spend their money supporting candidates or making TV ads about a candidate's environmental record, that is their prerogative. But as the week began, it was not McConnell who posed the greatest threat. It was, of all people, Minnesota Democrat Paul Wellstone, the most earnest, make-the-world-a-better-place senator...