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...Similarly, another skit features a Framingham construction worker turned priest delivering a eulogy for a lost friend. It is no easy feat to accept a eulogy to a friend who has succumbed to AIDS when both religion and mourning are contexutalized in the larger framework of drag queens and lost penises. Is the priest mocking those who have lost friends to the virus or those who have turned to God in their final months on earth...
...directors, the nearly 400-year-old texts are both a challenge to contemporary theater and a tremendous opportunity to make a unique artistic statement. Though simply putting on one of Shakespeare's plays is no mean feat, putting together a show which is new and exciting from texts that are such a familiar part of our cultural landscape presents quite a challenge to directors. "It's a monumental challenge just to get the play on its feet untouched... but the plays are a kind of common cultural currency, you can use them as a jumping-off point for a whole...
...other hand, can become just about anything--from teeth to muscle to neurons. In fact, they're so strongly primed to differentiate that scientists have a tough time keeping them in their original state. James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin was the first to pull off the feat in 1998. He now has an entire tissue bank of stem cells that he hopes one day to turn into specialized tissue almost at will--eliminating the need for fresh embryos...
...kicks into high gear, we’re still kicking ourselves for not scoring an invitation to the Senior Soiree. Redemption comes in the form of the fabled Keezer’s Dodecathlon: attending all 12 house formals in one fell swoop. The last person to attempt this Olympian feat drowned in an abyss of mixed punch and remixed pop. It can be done: provided you mind your...
...Lowell House Formal used to be a triple feat: jump from the watered-down punch in the Junior Common Room, to the thinned-out ‘80s pop in the dining hall, to the water-logged dance floor outside. This year tradition is thrown to the wind as Lowellians trek to Boston—just a hop, skip and a jump away...