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...House press secretary in history. Even in the White House's West Wing, where restrictions on visitors ensure that no one is just a tourist, his appearance in the hallway can elicit a bubble of giggly Beatlemania; I heard a visiting VIP yelp, "Omigod, I just saw Tony Snow!" His fame--invariably, his colleagues describe him as a "rock star"--has unavoidably changed the very nature of the job. He is more than a mouthpiece; he's a one-man echo chamber, able to riff on the themes of the Bush presidency with a wide smile and a word...
...Ramadan now and the Muslims are fasting," Rudolph wrote in the fall of 2005, three months after he arrived at ADX. "The call to prayer echoes through the halls five times a day giving this place a decidedly otherworldly feel." Although the inmates are isolated in gloomy one-man cells the size of a small bathroom at least 23 hours a day, their chambers aren't soundproof. In fact, the prison is noisy. Rudolph's housing unit resonates with the constant mechanical whir and clank of electronic gates, punctuated by the sound of inmates praying, wailing and shouting conversations...
Appointed to fill out a Senate term because the state bosses think he's naive and malleable, Jefferson Smith eventually stages a one-man filibuster to get his message out beyond the corrupt lawmakers and to the electorate. Capra-corn was never so spicy or savory as in this angry, impassioned political weepie. James Stewart, below, expertly plays every emotional key, from innocence to hysteria to exhaustion...
...fled. The box was then brimming with 20 to 30 dollars. Zhou ran after the thief but tripped and fell, scraping his arms. Now, Zhou continually empties the box as it fills up, transferring the cash into his wallet, leaving a few bills to prime the box. AND THE ONE-MAN BAND PLAYS ONDespite the occasional petty thefts, Zhou has no plans of depriving the Square of his flair for fiddling anytime soon.Over the years, Zhou has listened to cassettes and pored through books authored by jinghu masters to hone his musical skills.“Even though...
...ensemble. Goodman’s sense of space was keen: her use of the built-in balcony in the black box theater was both imaginative and practical, transforming the small floor space into a believable hospital.Unlike the first two plays, the second half of the production consisted of two one-man performances—Chekhov’s “Swan Song” and Bennett’s “Playing Sandwiches.”In the Johnson directed “Swan Song,” Jesse W. Barron ’08 played the role...