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...inherent flimsiness of the plot, this may not be such a terrible loss.) Still, everyone gets an A for effort. David Egan '00 is a sincere and entertainingly histrionic Pericles; Erin Billings '00, doubling in the major women's roles as Pericles's wife Thaisa and his daughter Marina, splits her personality neatly between a shudderingly silly and endearing pre-adolescent 1980s chick in the former role ("Wow! She's, like, the cutest thing since Safari-Style Barbie!" confides the love-struck Pericles to the audience) and the more serious one of the frightened virgin Marina in the latter...
...Taylor '00, who for the first half has nothing to do but to stand on stage as Antiochus's Daughter and crumple her face in disdain, emerges unexpectedly in the second half as a coldly terrifying Dionyza, the evil queen of Tarsus who plots the murder of our heroine Marina. (Taylor's final appearance, as the goddess Diana in an extraordinary strip tease scene, was equally impressive. But, unfortunately, the moment is ephemeral and cannot be recaptured in prose...
...fight--and it is still a fight--has got easier in the past few years as the government has become more aware of the environment. World leaders, from U.S. Vice President Al Gore to Brazilian Senator Marina Silva, are building constituencies around the green vote. "They know that the remarkable strength the environment has in opinion polls today can only translate into the polling place in the next century," says Duane Silverstein, executive director of the Goldman Foundation in San Francisco, which hands out annual $100,000 prizes to environmentalists. As a result, environmentalism can expect to attract more Mitrauds...
Bonham Carter's career has not lingered exclusively in Edwardiana; curiosity drives her into many movie landscapes. She is splendid as the impatient girlfriend of penniless poet Richard E. Grant in a lovely new film of George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying. She has played Marina Oswald (the TV movie Fatal Deception), Woody Allen's selfish wife (in Mighty Aphrodite), Sister Clare to Mickey Rourke's Francis of Assisi (no, really, in the 1989 Francesco), a French-speaking fashion designer (Portraits Chinois), a bachelor-party stripper (the BBC's Dancing Queen) and a scrubwoman who lops off vital parts...
...girls school. "In general, we're opposed to single-sex classrooms because studies show that in the long term, where boys and girls are separated, more resources are devoted to the boys," says Stacey Karp, president of NOW in San Francisco. So far, no one has challenged Marina's program...