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Despite its knee-slapping moments, this intense physical style can be a bit disconcerting in a play like The Misanthrope, which derives so much of its appeal from the verbal thrust-and-parry modeled after the wits of Moliere's France. Action often interrupts the rhyme and rhythm of the verse, and constant physical exertion occasionally leaves actors too flustered to deliver their lines smoothly. The play's periodic farcical episodes and silly characters can be amusing though, as long as they are timed so as not to interfere with the dialogue. For example, when director Jerry Ruiz '00 mixes...
...beensketched, and what follows is Murray and Zuckermanunpacking. Murray utters his six-night fractalintensification of detail, and Zuckerman listens,rapt to elderly Murray's deposition on his deathbrother. as a teenager, Zuckerman had taken Ira onas a mentor, and Roth is at his most interestingwhen he illustrates the knee-jerk memories evokedin Zuckerman by Murray's revelations...
...more waffling on whether teacher testing should be required. It should. No more hollow promises that education will be job one. Let's face it: during the Weld/Cellucci administration, a focus on education was woefully absent. No more knee-jerk reactions to bad test scores. The governor needs to set the tone for an informed and reasoned debate about the best way to train and test our state's future teachers...
...takes off from Turpmtine--the local Georgia pronunciation of the product once derived from the pinetree resin harvested there. The 29,000 acres of this plantation belong to Charlie Croker, 60, a high-stakes Atlanta real estate developer with a second wife 32 years his junior and an arthritic knee, a relic from his days of playing football for Georgia Tech. Among his many earthly possessions, Turpmtine is by far Charlie's most cherished; he sees it as a validation not of his wealth but of something deeper: "You had to be man enough to deserve a quail plantation...
Junior Kate Moynihan has also been bothered by a knee injury. However, Schotte says that sophomore Senta Burton is coming off a strong season and that sophomore Mary Unsworth "is focused now and in fantastic shape." Freshman Erin Leonard "has been running really well and has had a really strong season...