Word: laws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women consider themselves "uncommon" in reference to societal expectations, they all have conflicting ideas about the changing times in which they live and about the adults that they are becoming. Their afternoons are full of tea and brandy, while their evenings are full of more risqu behavior: applying to law school or sneaking out to have sex. The play is a comedy, and by focusing on its comic aspects, director Dorothy Fortenberry '02 successfully avoids the preachy and whiny mess that the material could easily become. Wasserstein's message is that a woman must choose between being feminine and having...
...husband, as the audience anticipates, and the court scene that ensues is fabulously orchestrated. Gunn demonstrates considerable talent in controlling his body. As robot-husband, he is eerily mechanical and almost reminiscent of an Edward Scissorhands figure. Parris and Agresta, both lawyers, reflect the insensitivity and detachment that the law has for human emotion. The bright lighting illustrates a sense of barrenness, and the media, Montoya and Gomes, again engage in their convincing double dialogue and contribute to the scene's mechanical intention...
...Donin said the University would have been able to bring the lawsuit regardless of the new law, using instead federal trademark law and state law concerning unfair competition and deceptive practices...
...others are not so sanguine. Christopher F. Edley, Jr., a professor at the Law School since 1981, says he feels Harvard has met with limited success...
...impression is the GSE is trying very hard," he says. "But there are serious problems. The law school, for example, not withstanding prominent African-American appointments, is in desperately bad shape with respect to other minorities...