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...late-breaking news on Friday read like a series of dispatches from the front lines. There were horrified first-hand accounts of the "wounded and the dead," of those who had "caught a falling knife" and, above all, of the universality of the "carnage." Though the President stoutly refused to acknowledge the situation, those in the trenches were quickly conceding a "painful" defeat...
...much in common: both are Philadelphians who went to the University of Pennsylvania, and both survived a formative experience with crime. A decade ago, shortly after moving from Utah to Philadelphia, the amiable Borgenicht was conned out of $500. And while on vacation in Jamaica, Piven was chased by knife-wielding motorcyclists. They were after his gold signet class ring, and when he refused to hand it over, Piven says, they left...
...confrontation scene into what is one of the high points of the evening's entertainment. Another image that remains indelibly in my mind is that of Lady Bracknell (Sarah deLima) and her daughter Gwendolen making their first entrance like a battleship with a cruiser in its wake; identical knife-edge profiles at the same angle, the daughter a lesser double of her terrible Mamma. The dialogue in all its sharp cut-glass, epigrammatic brittleness is for the most part well delivered and highly enjoyable...
...facial expressions enhances her performance and draws the audience in to her plight as the one-time fiance of the now dead Sir Roderic Murgatroyd (Robert Hughes '01). Hannah is a feisty woman and Kim is wonderfully cast; it is with much relish and glee that she pulls a knife (from a glittering red garter) on Robin, in one of Ruddigore's many comic twists...
...arrested Nicholas Perez for assault with a firearm and knife and two counts of possession of a dangerous weapon...