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Aysan Celik's Antigone, on the other hand, captures the ambiguities and changing motives that Sophocles built into her role. At the beginning of the play, she trespasses Creon's decree with an eye to glorious martyrdom, only to become hideously frightened once her execution is inevitable. Thompson's Creon acts on character; Celik's Antigone is impulsive. These two actors' interpretations of the role are the closest the production comes to being a prism that reflects contemporary times. Antigone is the baby boomer of the 60s, fighting the good fight for all the reasons right and wrong; Creon...
...fiddle, dobro and a tasty pedal steel (played by the incomparable Buddy Emmons). I don't even detect a drum beat on this track. In part, this was an attempt to cash in on the early-'60s craze for all types of folk music; no matter, the results are glorious...
Hooray for Tryptophan! That glorious amino acid which makes our spirits light and eyelids heavy is also a major ingredient in turkey-hence, after each successive dose of turkey cold cuts, roast turkey, turkey sandwiches, or turkey tetrazini, we find our lazy selves giggling and mirthful over the most inane of things. In this haze of holiday cheer, I spent the four days catching up on my pop culture, but when it was all over, I felt a lingering discomfort in my stomach (maybe it was the butternut squash?). I felt like the wool had been pulled over my eyes...
...wasn't the loss. The last two Games taught me to expect fourth-quarter heartbreak (ah, the glorious 1997 Ivy-winning season). It wasn't the cold: The Yale Bowl, stuck seemingly in a wind-swept spot in the midst of nowhere, has wreaked more havoc on my tropical blood. It was the ticketing. My friends and I entered the stadium and took up our assigned seats in Section 11. Whereupon we realized that, even though our tickets clearly said we were Harvard students, Section 11 was on the side of the stadium flying the blue "Y" flag...
...root of his loss, Gore himself may not be so self-absorbed. As he looks back over the past eight years, and ponders what might have been over the next four, the vice president will always be haunted by the specter of Bill Clinton. The President, in all his glorious imperfection, embodies everything Gore despises, and everything he wanted so desperately...