Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stotland failed her junior and senior years of high school but still obtained her General Equivalency Diploma (GED). She worked as a museum guide, an Omniplex projectionist and a free-lance caterer before attending Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania for two years, then coming to Harvard as a junior transfer student...
Though more classical, there were subtle quirks throughout. Portions had slightly disconcerting discord--dancers doing the same movements but a count or so apart from each other. Throughout the piece were sections of movement that had flexed feet and rigid, straight arms, something not usually seen in ballet. In general, the piece had clean, straight lines. Classic movements would stop in midmovement, and instead of being completed as expected, would somehow change. One particularly playful moment had male dancers lifting their partners into the wings and throwing them as the audience gasped, only for her to be caught by another...
...human beings confined to anonymous cubicles in myriad, analogous corporations across the country. The protagonist, Peter Gibbons, played by everyman Ron Livingston, is fed-up with the endless paper shuffling at corporate nightmare Initech, his unctuously sinister boss Bill Lumberg (Gary Cole) and, in short, his life in general. Gibbons' arguments against the system are blandly familiar and add nothing new to the common polemics against human automatism. But Gibbons' main function is to give the similarly disillusioned audience an easily identifiable character. And the audience at this particular viewing (mostly 20-somethings) were consistently muttering, "Oh yeah, I hate...
...absurdity and constantly pokes fun at itself and its form. The songs are catchy ("Houdinis of Whodunit") or endearing ("Blue Suede Blues"); and the cast appears to be genuinely enjoying itself on stage. Furthermore, (as these things go) the plot is compelling. (Present-day presidential candidate General Lee Aliar (Jason Mills) threatens to ban Rock 'n Roll in exchange for campaign funding from disco-freak Hal Elujah; in order to save Rock 'n Roll, Elvis impersonator Al Shookup (Seth Fenton) travels back in time from the year 2099 to Philadelphia in 1787, where he elicits the help of Founding Father...
...votes aren't all counted in Nigeria's presidential election, and that's just part of the problem. With the ballots from 31 of the country's 36 states in, the favorite, General Olusegun Obasanjo, is more than five million votes ahead, and his opponent, former finance minister Olu Falae, is charging widespread voter fraud as the reason why. So far, international observers say only that the cheating has been done by both sides. But the election broke down pretty much as expected, with Obasanjo sweeping the northern territories that are home to the military elite that supports his candidacy...