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...purpose—to adapt either a fairy tale or literary work for a young audience once a year during Arts First weekend—it makes sense that they often forget their own rules. SGCT seems to be guided by the simple principle: make ‘em laugh. Last year’s show was “a child-friendly adaptation of ‘A Tale of Two Cities,” says Hoagland. “Instead of chopping off heads, we gave them hair cuts.” The company’s actors...
...says. Her studies in England will focus “in a sustained way” on theory and philosophy as autonomous works.“I’m looking forward to taking a course just on Derrida. Period,” she says with a laugh. Vasiliauskas seems to know that her planned course of study might nauseate the average theory-starved English concentrator, but she keeps her feet in the world of literature through her poetry writing and editorial duties.“As an editor, I’m in a position to get to read...
...population.Yes, I slowly learned, Washington was not always the inspiring metropolis that guidebooks and movies had promised me. And if Barry’s escapades hadn’t taught me such sad truths, surely some other scandal would have.And yet we often see that people much prefer to laugh at misfortune or embarrassment than to cry over it. The talk shows went crazy for Barry. I remember that the 1996 comedy “High School High” was set in inner-city Marion Barry High. I have a sweatshirt that asks, “Washington, D.C.: Wanna...
Ever since its 2000 recount debacle, Florida has been America's butt of election jokes. But its politicians are determined to have the last laugh next year: they want to move the state's Presidential primary balloting to January 29 - a full week before the February 5 "Super Tuesday" primaries that will include heavyweights like California and New York as well as more than a dozen other states...
...suffering,” to say that your pain is not real is to relegate the reality of the sufferer to the realm of the trivial, the unimportant, or the laughable. Sometimes this torment is deliberate: I kick you and then laugh at you for crying. But in most cases, the willingness to hurt stems from ignorance or a lack of comprehension: I laugh at you because I do not understand...