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...There’s a little less mad stress about making sure that technically [productions] would happen, and that allows for more thoughtfulness than might have been possible in past seasons,” Hodgson says. Technical tasks that fulfill the requirement include carpentry, lighting, loading sets, and sundry other tasks that many productions scramble to complete with the dearth of consistent technical hands and time constraints...
...Cassandra, a prophetess who is to be raped by Agamemnon, Tess Mullen ’04 was eerily mad, whirling blindly while brandishing a sword and promising to kill her “husband”. Meneleus, performed by Richard J. Powell ’04, was dressed somewhere between a trailer park inhabitant, Egyptian, and rapper. Helen of Troy, was portrayed by Leah R. Lussier ’07 as a pouty sexpot accustomed to using her wiles...
With fears of mad cow lingering, it's a relief to learn that we probably don't have to worry about a related condition--chronic wasting disease--that afflicts deer and elk. In a survey of death certificates in infected areas, Colorado scientists found no increase in human deaths attributable to the disease...
...carrier the U.S.S. Enterprise, but his officers wouldn't even let him tour the engine room. Champollion died at 40. Fischer never defended his world title. He declined into irascibility and then obscurity. What happened to him? A chess master once said, "Chess is not something that drives people mad. Chess is something that keeps mad people sane." Which is to say that genius may lie not only in having a gift but in lacking something crucial as well. Reading these books, one feels grateful for being just a little stupid...
...enduring image of John Gielgud is that of a grand and dignified English gentleman. Think of that sonorous, burnished voice, those proud, aristocratic features. Then try and imagine him writing "[The] young men are certainly attractive, and of course they are mad costume and uniform fetishists, so my eye was continually titillated with corduroy, breeches, jackboots, et cetera!" That frisson of conflict between public and private man is part of the irresistible appeal of Gielgud's Letters, published this week. The 800-plus missives, written between 1912 and 1999, reveal a complex, often outrageous, character. Not only is Gielgud open...