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...repressed emotions by playing the role with physical stiffness on the one hand, and bellowing anger on the other. Christine Nyereyegona '00 was a regal Gertrude, if rather lacking in subtlety in her bedroom confrontation scene with Hamlet, and Jesse Hawkes '99 was an unobtrusive and shamefully underexploited Horatio. The luminous Ophelia, of Jessica Kaye '00, too, began winningly enough, but she overplayed her madness scenes just slightly. By far the most effective of the supporting cast, Jim Augustine '01 made a hilariously funny, if somewhat unexpectedly young and savvy, Polonius; his lines were among the few humorous ones...
...SAILOR! (1980) Carter calls Hubert Humphrey, Hubert Horatio Hornblower...
...dinner dress suggesting the authoritative adult reimagined by a clear-eyed child, the guilty class reinvented in the image of the innocent one. His "little fellow" was the expression of a wildly sentimental, deeply felt allegiance to rags over riches by the star of the century's most conspicuous Horatio Alger scenario...
Mahon's star attraction is its fabulous natural harbor, three miles long and big enough to shelter a whole fleet of ships. The legendary British Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson, is said to have called Mahon's harbor the finest in the world. He is also said to have been so captivated by the island that he brought along Lady Emma Hamilton for a few days of relaxation in the colonial-style Golden Farm mansion that still overlooks the port. British influence lives on in a taste for gin drinking ("Lord Nelson" was one of the brands produced on the island...
...conference, fate brought her into the line of sight of her Governor, who allegedly divined beneath her frothy perm a "come-hither" look. A state trooper appeared at her side, imploringly. She rose from her chair and stepped into the roiling currents of American history. It is a Horatio Alger story for our time. It could have happened to anybody wearing mascara...