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...first act in 16 days. Seeing the show today, smiling at some jokes, groaning at others, you may ask, "It took that long?" This was a script built for laughs, not to last. It's less a Petronian satire than a Catskills burlesque, reveling in fake French ("Garcon, s'il vous plait, / Encore, Chevrolet coupe") and real Yiddish, as when French soldiers sing, "A vous toot dir veh, a vous?" and the nine Supreme Court justices declare, "We're the A.K.'s / Who give the O.K.'s" - A.K.'s meaning alterkockers. (For this lore I thank Alan Abrams, Time...
...down to evil thugs.” A memo sent to alums seeking more information detailed North Korea’s “unique protocols” whereby guests are “expected to bow as a gesture of respect at the statue of Kim Il Sung, and at his mausoleum.” Orin told The Crimson it was “shameful” for the University to consider on-campus military recruiters inappropriate, and “yet you’re going to tell people it’s okay to bow down...
From Aurora, IL, ELLIOT R. LAUZEN ’09 keeps in shape as a wide-receiver on the football team. This biology concentrator works in a Medical School lab, and likes to hang out with the boys at Hoffa’s. This Pennypacker resident will be making plays in Winthrop next year. His buddies call him “Chise”, and his personal quote is short and concise: “Compete...
...Il faut aller voir" (We must go and see) was the motto aboard legendary sea explorer Jacques Cousteau's boat Calypso. With his 1956 Oscar-winning underwater-adventure documentary The Silent World, Cousteau transported millions of viewers to the Indian Ocean islands of Assomption and Aldabra?one of the world's largest coral atolls. Today it's possible to go in person. The Island Sky is a small expedition ship that departs from Mauritius, taking 100 passengers on 12-day-long cruises on these turquoise waters. Wading ashore on Aldabra, home to the world's largest population of giant tortoises...
...were kidnapped by North Korean agents in 1978; in Seoul. One of the South's most prominent directors in the 1960s and '70s?his 1958 film Jiokhwa featured the country's first on-screen kiss?Shin and wife Choi Eun Hee were abducted because North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, a movie buff, wanted to boost his country's film industry. Shin and Choi made a dozen movies at Kim's behest before staging a daring escape to the U.S. in 1986. The couple returned to Seoul...