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...scale model of the Statue of Liberty evoked memories of Tiananmen Square. A mock barrier, dubbed the Wall of Colonialism, was battered down as demonstrators cheered. It might have been an anti-Soviet prop at an independence rally in Lithuania. Instead, this was in the city of Ponce in southern Puerto Rico, and the 125,000 yellow-clad marchers were not calling for the island's freedom but to join the U.S. as the 51st state...
...naked), and in comes this smart-ass dandy with a little notebook--this peer--who wasn't at any of those rehearsals, who hasn't put in any time, who can sit comfortably in a chair, scribbling away, and who, with a few sneering phrases, can choose to mock and malign everything that took two months to build. No wonder you hate the critic, even the genuinely insightful critic (a rare bird, anyway...
...from the production, as the actors are equally amusing. Oberhuber, however, does steal the funniest scene in the work. He remarks on the globular maid Nell: "I could discern countries upon her." When his master, Antipholus of Syracuse, quizzes him about the location of the Netherlands, he responds in mock-shock, "Oh, master, I did not look...
Dubbed by Lampoon editors the "lankiest comedian of all time," the 6'4" Cleese outdueled a meek Undergraduate Council Chair Guhan Subramanian '91-'92, wrestler Dwight Cooper '92 and several other local heroes in a mock battle for the dubious humor award...
...invaluable skill. Henderson puts an environmental spin on his aesthetic sense, and while he is a leader, he is not alone in this. Ever the magpie, fashion has caught on to ecology. "Le look vegetal" is popular in Paris, where earth colors and materials like fake hemp and mock plant stems are making news. In Henderson's case, the affinity to natural colors probably predates environmental zeal. "I like fruit tones, wood, stones," he says. "I keep beautiful rocks around, and I dry flowers to see which shades will emerge...