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...sweat coming out of his ears. And the acting by the supporting cast also is fine, especially by John Rabinowitz '85 as a guest who points out the Sartrean dilemma of being and nothingness by throwing himself down on all fours "to pretend to be a hyena"--a cameo that culminates in Rabinowitz taking a chunk out of the leg of a fellow guest. Kudos to Fitch for giving Rabinowitz several chances throughout the play to reveal his amazing repertoire of vocal sound effects...
...Hughes shuns the glitzy, social side of art, rarely attending gallery openings. Says he: "In this game it is better to be a hyena than a corgi. Critics who embed themselves too deeply in the art world run the risk of being sucked under." Few art dealers have forgotten a scalding satire of the SoHo gallery scene in New York City that Hughes wrote in the style of an Alexander Pope poem for the New York Review of Books last year...
...time he did, however, Garang, who has a Ph.D. in economics from Iowa State University, had already made public his suspicions of the new government. "The people's revolution has been stolen," he declared in a radio broadcast. "This is Nimeiri's regime. No matter what clothes the hyena puts on, it remains a hyena...
Will it help to explain that his nickname was Spider? Spider Nissen. Henry Nissen, a.k.a. Hank Nissen, a.k.a. Spider Nissen and the last clung to him like a bad smell. He had a touch of the hyena for that matter--the same we-eat-tainted-meat-together intimacy that burns out of a hyena's eyes behind the bars of his cage. So Spider Nissen would look at me and give a giggle as if we had both had a girl together, and each took turns sitting on her head...
...BEGGAR DRESSED IN TATTERS stalks on stage. The spotlight shines bleakly on him; the rest of the stage is dark. Sneering at the audience--suspicious, perhaps scornful--he spits and suddenly doubles over with a hyena-like laugh. He straightens abruptly and with a sweeping arm, signals to cut the light. His laughter echoes eerily through the darkness after he has left the stage. Ten seconds have elapsed...