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Revising an established text is not always a good idea. For instance, no one in their right mind would change "To be or not to be" to "Dude! What the fuck?" in order to modernize Hamlet. But there are plenty of crazies out there (especially in theater). Ambitious writers who love to take on such dangerous tasks as rewriting Shakespeare, Jonson or Middleton are not rare...
...biggest laughs come from the bizarre anachronistic changes and crass one-liners. "Dorine, shut the fuck up!" is not really funny by itself. Injected into a 322-year-old text, it is hysterical. But it is also cheap. Auletta's changes are so self-conscious that Dorine, while discussing her mistress's illness and the use of leeches to cure it, comments to the audience how odd it is that they are making all these modern references and have no idea what modern medicine is. Why didn't Auletta just change Moliere's references to leeches, too? Because he wanted...
However, that was not the message broadcast at the recent financial aid really. The first speakers at the rally wore Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich marks, one of which read "Fuck Newt." Like-wise, many attendees shouted vulgar slogans such as "Dole Sucks...
...afternoon, Utne had scrawled "I suck" on the face of the Gingrich mask and "Fuck Newt" on the backside...
...weekend following the killings at Kent State, 100,000 people descended upon Washington for a demonstration outside the White House. By this time the protesters had dropped the conciliatory tone of past moratoriums. "Fuck Richard Nixon," they cried...