Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baseball as it ought...
...humor in favor of the tragic, or in this case, bathetic parts. Alex Roe's Cyrano is the major casualty of this approach, though, to be fair, some of his wounds are self-inflicted. He seems to drone endlessly, eyes glazed and fingers fidgeting, in a voice that ought to earn him the name Cyrano de Sinusitus. But once he's roused from this topor by the approach of a good joke, Roe becomes an adrenalin-charged humor dynamo, leaping and cavorting about the stage. His mad attack upon the lascivious Comte de Guiche (Jeff Rosen) and his introduction...
...weeks that she has neither the breadth of vision nor the integrity to lead the Board. That the person responsible for the fairness of an election would have the lack of discretion to try to influence that vote is a gross disservice to the Harvard community. And one we ought not to tolerate. In the wake of her slimy effort to swing the election, Bok should resign in order to preserve some respect and authority for the membership and the activities of the Board of Overseers...
...Nelson. Now being performed off-Broadway, it has been accorded a rare honor for an American play: Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company will produce it in London this fall. The cumbersome title is a punning Latinate reference to the rules for sound literary construction and the morals that artists ought to live by. Yet Nelson focuses on two characters who are not artists, merely intelligent men. The narrative is less concerned with the fate of the poet than with their enduring misunderstanding and mistrust...
...look that says she wants to go with him but knows better than to do so. It's a centuries-old look--women, girls really, who should have said "no" but couldn't, who wanted love so much that they settled for sex. And it's a look that ought to leave the audience pondering the fine line between seduction and rape. Desire and fear become one and the same...