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...Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. It treats you to a lot of interesting philosophizing and wordplay, and it’s a lot of fun to watch, but I don’t remember a lick of the dialogue a day later. Instead, I remember Broadwater’s hapless sincerity, Hodgson’s idiot scowl, my laughter-strained stomach, and the show’s deeply affecting sense of existential loneliness. That’s a package worth sitting through two intermissions...
Hodgson and Broadwater star as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, respectively, taking on two of contemporary theater’s most celebrated antiheros. Stoppard’s black comedy and one of his most popular works to date, follows Hamlet’s hapless and disoriented friends who wander through the Danish court, between England and their imminent death—in events that seem always controlled by forces beyond their control...
...crass will question the utility of a store devoted to selling poetry, and praise the invisible hand that slowly strangled the hapless business, squashing an enterprise that prospered through the Great Depression and under nine U.S. presidents. We abhor this attitude. Too much of Cambridge’s history is being lost for the embrace of this blasé worship of capitalism—red in tooth and claw—to be permissible. In 2000, the historic Bow & Arrow Pub served its last pint, culminating a decade of the Square’s cultural decline. In 1992 customers literally...
...cynical maneuver by his political opponents. Roh was a surprise winner of the 2002 presidential election; the liberal human-rights lawyer who campaigned as a political outsider and dedicated reformer was swept into office primarily by young voters eager for a change. His inexperienced administration has been hapless at times, and his maverick efforts to root out corruption among politicians and businessmen have gained him plenty of enemies in the Establishment. The impeachment "is nothing less than a coup d'?tat," seethes Im Jong Seok, a member of the Uri Party, a group of reformist lawmakers loyal...
...Stan, Kenny and Cartman - are prepared for their first Holy Communion and scared crapless that they'll go to hell if they don't confess all their sins. Kyle, equally, panicked, wants to confess too. But the very conservative priest, Father Maxi, informs Kyle solemnly that he and his hapless kind are condemned to wade forever in the wretched lake of fire. His colleague, the more liberal Sister Anne, is shocked: "I think that as long as Jewish people are good, they will get into heaven." The priest is incensed: "Sister, the Jews crucified our Savior. I mean...