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...grace. Adrian Lester, a willowy black Rosalind, has the gift of breathless apprehension, ever ready to burst into tears at the folly and wonder of men. Scott Handy is Orlando, properly perplexed at the vision of a man (Lester) playing a woman (Rosalind), who for the sake of a jest is playing a man. Simon Coates is deliciously censorious as Rosalind's companion, Celia, a young lady well bred in exasperation; some day she may grow up to be Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Something to Sing About | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...what you want is what you get at McDonald's today." While the message doesn't present a problem, the means of communication do. All of the actors utilize an extreme dialect and mode of speaking that no person I know, white or black, has ever used except in jest...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Hate With Pickles | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...unspeakable crime? Posting a suicide note--in jest--on the Internet...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Orwell On Line | 12/3/1994 | See Source »

...people joke, and it's a jest, but still, you can tell," Gilchrist says. "They have these preconceptions...

Author: By Janet C. Chang, | Title: Like Race, Regionalism Can Be Cause for Bias | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...JEST...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Star -- Or Maybe a Historic Footnote -- Is Born | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

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