Word: frankenstein
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Brad and Janet get stranded by the Frankenstein Place and their host Frank N. Furter is just a little too effusive for the bespectacled Brad and (we discover later) lace-slipped Janet...
...almost everyone in the play, is a little dumb. That's one of the central ingredients to Rodgers and Hammerstein's charm--the commonality of dumbness. Even the psychopathic villain Jud (most terrifyingly and affectingly played by an actor named Jerry Medanic) has his menace diluted by the dopey Frankenstein aspects to his character. Linda Anne Kirwan's Laurey didn't really make clear the sexual coming-out of the girl lead, but one senses that she wasn't directed with the special attention a Laurey needs to make sure that she's a distinct profile...
...Leonora, Beard encounters Paola's jealous husband and quarrels over aesthetic theory and race relations, is raped by a group of feminist women (hence the title?) and in the midst of all this chaos, manages to complete a screenplay for a Hollywood musical on Lord Byron, the Shelleys and Frankenstein...
...left the position and he won re-election in '75. He got the post because he had finished tenth in a race for nine spots. The loudest, most unrestrained of the candidates in any race he has entered, the media portrayed O'Neil as a joke, and like Dr. Frankenstein, it lost control of the monster it had created. His antics have gathered a following, and the reason can be found in the shifting social pressures in Boston...
...justifying torture as a necessary evil is dangerous and flawed. The fact is that the purpose of torture, more often than not, is pure and simple repression of all opposition. Moreover, once torture is sanctioned, even against genuine terrorists, the network of torture has a way of becoming a Frankenstein's monster, finding reasons for a continued existence even after its initial tasks have been accomplished...