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Wellman has built himself a nice little perch above the landscape of traditional American theater, from which he occasionally leans out and spits at the ground below. He is one of contemporary theater’s dark princes of sensual excess and linguistic innovation; his works focus on the spectacle and grotesquery of extreme personalities and places...

Author: By Emma Firestone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fangs for the Memories | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

...scored in the last game but we ended up losing that one,” Packard said. “I only played in two of the four games. There were an excess of players...

Author: By Tyson E. Hubbard, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Packard Plays With The Best | 11/6/2001 | See Source »

...train from St. Louis and were traveling on phony Indian passports. Last week the FBI told the New York Times that when the two were found, they had shaved off most of their body hair. An inspirational memo in some of the hijackers' belongings instructed them to "shave excess hair from the body"; the reasons are unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting the Wall | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...Piece of My Heart does exactly what it should; it takes away a piece of our excess human optimism and makes us realize that perhaps we don’t wholly understand America’s most disastrous war—and it does this without pretending that it does...

Author: By Clint J. Froehlich, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vietnam 'Piece' Reaches Head, Heart | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

...Everyone knows that Sarah W. Friedburg ‘04 wants Felipe L. DePaul ‘03’s sauce except DePaul, who tells everyone he sees that he is languishing in an excess of unwanted sauce...

Author: By Gossip Guy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy! | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

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