Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pleased that some of the Task Force's minor recommendations on Ad Board procedure have been adopted. Giving alleged victims the opportunity to face the Ad Board personally with their accusations and preventing each party from seeing the other's initial statements before writing their own are significant improvements on a system that some alleged victims have charged inherently favored the accused. The establishment of permanent subcommittees to investigate disciplinary matters (of any kind) will also go a long way toward effective resolution of date rape cases...
...Christians want to join the holiday bartering, we should get with the program and start exchanging Christmas presents. Hannukah itself is a nice little holiday, commemorating the victory of the Maccabees over Greek aggressors a long time ago. But in the Jewish calendar, it's very much a minor event. It's not even mentioned in the Bible. And the specter of celebrating the holiday by swapping presents might prompt Hillel himself to spin in his grave...
Christie Peale should also be commended for the wonderful costumes of Little Shop. The trio's outfits range from basic black to sequins with appropriate minor alterations--Chinese jackets, dental hygienist coats--for every scene they appear in. Each of Audrey's tacky outfits is funnier than the last, and the biker dentist sports a leather jacket with a bleeding tooth on the back...
That the tragic elements seem ineffective can't really be blamed on the company, who turn in performances ranging from serviceable to superb. The sheer number of minor characters and the indistinguishability of their names does not prevent certain actors from achieving distinction: particularly wonderful were Candy Buckley as the secretary Polixena Vasilievna Toropetskaya, Margaret Gibson as the cat-hurling actress Lyudmila Silvestrovna Priakina and Jeremy Geidt as Romanus, the conductor at the Independent Theatre. Derek Smith is not a very dynamic Maksudov; although he expresses his suicidal desperation nicely, his creative anxieties and joys are only sketchily delineated. Alvin...
...play. Renaissance Italy and the nineteenth-century South share frivolous aristocrats and a conservative marriage ethic, but this is not enough to justify the change of scene. Perhaps there is an obscure reference to the Southern psyche--but to the uninitiated the production seems to revolve around the one minor actor, Joshua Bloom, who speaks with a Southern accent. A riverboat does not lend itself to the action: the gulling scenes are harder to stage, and the space confuses the audience. What is outside and what is inside? Shilling's adaptation causes these confusions. And for all her pains, there...