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This farce by Michael Frayn (Copenhagen) depicts the travails of a hapless acting troupe as they tour a sex comedy across Britain. As their tour progresses, romances wither and egos are bruised, and soon there’s more mischief being wreaked offstage than on. Recent revivals of the play in London and New York were well-received. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets $10; $5 students; $4 Adams House residents. Through Nov. 23. Adams Pool Theatre...
...previous two weeks returned in full force for almost the entire game. Linebackers Dante Balestracci and Bobby Everett mercilessly hounded Columbia quarterback Jeff Otis and running back Ayo Oluwole with a fierceness that implied they, too, were frustrated and angry by how this team has been playing. The hapless Otis received the full brunt of Balestracci’s aggravation in the second quarter, when the Harvard captain delivered a crushing hit that temporarily knocked the Lion quarterback out of the game...
Practice makes perfect: Conservative M.P.s in Britain last week dumped their third leader since forcing out Margaret Thatcher in 1990. The mutiny was smooth and quick. After the hapless Iain Duncan Smith - who had failed utterly to exploit Prime Minister Tony Blair's Iraq problem - was shown the door, the normally intrigue-prone Tory M.P.s quickly rallied behind one man: shadow chancellor Michael Howard, 62, who seems likely to become leader this week unopposed. But can this football-loving lawyer do any better than Duncan Smith? Howard, the son of Jewish immigrants, has sharp elbows and broad experience in government...
...with Ellen’s airport confession to Laura Dern. Since then, Jack McFarland has danced into our hearts with his delicious rendition of “Oops… I Did it Again,” and the Fab 5 have revealed the inner beauty of dozens of hapless heteros (you’d find it under those dead skin cells, boys, if you only exfoliated). Right...
...image of the map f-prime, by the exactness of the lower sequence, so we can pull it back to an element in a-prime, which it turns out is well defined modulo the image of alpha!” leading lady Jill Clayburgh crows. The hapless viewer, meanwhile, may wonder whether he’s accidentally rented a tape of the most recent lecture in Mathematics 272a: “Introduction to Algebraic Topology...