Word: gorgeousity
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Director Nina Sawyer '01 and her company were blessed by remarkably gorgeous weather for their outdoor production of French existentialist Jean Anouilh's Antigone, and by and large the cast rises to the elements' implicit challenge in this production, one that starts slowly but gains momentum as it marches toward its foretold conclusion. Indeed, Anouilh's 1942 Antigone is not about suspense, but about the inevitability of playing roles. For Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, this means performing burial rites for her slain brother Polynices, who has been declared a traitor of the state and therefore forbidden those rites. For Antigone...
...Watson, a venture capitalist, says he and his family "start looking forward to our annual Christmas trip to this gorgeous ranch around August." They first went there 10 years ago and have returned ever since, making many friends they can't wait to see again...
...reason for the Corrs' large-scale success to date (as well as in the foreseeable future) is that the three sisters are, to put it simply, gorgeous. Movie-star gorgeous. Stab-your-friend-in-the-back-for-their-smile gorgeous. And, yes, buy-their-assembly-line-trash-music gorgeous. Fight the impulse; if you must gaze at the Corrs, buy a poster, not their album. It's easier to stare at them when that bad pop music isn't distracting you anyhow...
...junior forward scored the first of her two goals in the game--her first two of the season--when a gorgeous Ripmaster cross from the right side found her right in front of the net. Moore converted, and the Crimson led, 1-0, just over a minute into the second period...
...fourth song, "How to Disappear Completely," is a beautiful ballad in the tradition of OK Computer's "Lucky" and The Bends' "Fake Plastic Trees." The minimalist lyrics and instrumentation are in concert with the song's theme of invisibility. However, there is still the rare indulgence; a gorgeous and unexpected melisma on "Strobe Lights" sets the song apart from its predecessors...