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...bring down sainted Don Emilio Valverde (Alvin Epstein), the resident intellectual conscience. The means of his destruction will be the cheap and lovely Violet (Maggie Rush), an entertainer of sorts. It does not come as a surprise to learn that Violet, ungrateful and naive, was formerly employed in a fish factory before her rescue by Uyttersprot, and that her parents work in the nitrate mines. As it does to many other characters in this play, heavy-handed stereotyping effectively and lamentably trivializes Violet's plight...
...really encouraged by what I saw at the tournament," Head Coach David Fish said. "It gave us a much clearer blueprint of what we have to do as a team to win the league title and gain as NCAA berth...
...important thing for this team is to build on what its doing well," Fish said. "We know what quality play is, but now they have to know they can do this...
...tabloid is a newspaper designed for wrapping fish. Before folding in the flounder, some folks read it for prurient gossip about the filthy famous and filthier rich, political scandals, meat-ax murders, baby killers, horse-race results, used-car ads and, now and then, a scoop. It speaks with a cigarette behind its ear and a toothpick in the corner of its mouth. Its headlines are punchy and raunchy: HEADLESS BODY FOUND IN TOPLESS BAR and BEST SEX I EVER HAD. Men read these papers mainly for sporting news. Women prefer tabloids, jokes Mortimer Zuckerman, owner of the New York...
...boldfaced terms to cram into an already over-stuffed memory, and then sedately continued reading, without further thought. And so would many a tired Harvard student, perhaps not realizing the ideological assumption lying behind that description. One hardly expects to encounter religious dogma along side a discussion of fish kidneys...