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...Beneath the sly gaze of three security guards, it was motored out," said Funke, who added that he thought that neither students nor the guards hired to provide security for the party saw the students remove the object from the house...
...choice of Adolphus Busch Hall as the venue for the play is a significant and felicitous one. The hall itself supports the director's take on the story. Busch Hall's cavernous stone interior contains the entrance to a cathedral and a lofty balcony from which two putti gaze impishly on the audience below. The cathedral door appears to have been taken from a church in Europe and brought whole to the United States, like the Parthenon friezes taken to England by Lord Elgin. This fact supports the play's and the story's vision of imperialistic thievery, where...
...Cara Schmidt surely must think they will make the best possible parents for Jessica, and the child may agree when she is older. But that will be small comfort to her on the morning of April 21 if she wakes up in a completely different house under the loving gaze of strangers...
There always exists an overlooked aspect to every scientist and theory, according to Gould. Edmund Halley, for example, didn't just gaze skyward. He actually suggested a possible method of measuring the Earth's age by comparing river salt levels. Though the theory is flawed. Gould praises Halley's early efforts at such an important task, as he is careful to honor each of the characters in the history of science he discusses...
...queens have a symbiotic relationship, as do gay men and camp. Despite conservative rhetoric about boys-will-be-boys-by-being-girls, camp and homosexuality cannot be served from open another, simply because they've been blurred too often. In the name of propriety, we cannot simply refocus our gaze and separate the two into distinctly autonomous categories...