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...decisions of the play--the choice of Michael McNeal as Clay, my additions to the Conductor's part, etc., and yet, she doesn't credit me with the casting of Cohen as Lula. I wanted a younger Lula, and the decision to make the character more hysterical from the outset was mine as well. I have studied this play for four years now, and I firmly believe that Dutchman is anything but a subtle play, and Lula is anything but a realistic, "normal" character. She is most certainly not "bitter" as Leland asserts, because bitterness connotes a certain victimization...
...BAND OF SETTLERS LEFT ILLInois for California. They ended up stranded in the Sierra Nevada at the outset of the worst winter ever recorded there. By the time the starving survivors straggled into Sutter's Fort, THE DONNER PARTY had written one of the darkest chapters in American history, a tale of humans reduced to the most desperate circumstances -- including, famously, cannibalism. For this PBS documentary, Ric Burns, a co-producer with his brother Ken of The Civil War, uses the same techniques as that series -- archival photographs, readings from diaries and letters -- to re-create the story with harrowing...
...Because of the shallowness of our society and because of the biological differences in men and women, attractive women have an edge at the outset. They are the first noticed in social situations, and they are highly thought of in business situations. It's just a fact. And in many cases attractive women have not had to prepare themselves as well intellectually because they've got these other things to rely on. Meanwhile you have women who don't think they fit into the category of attractive, pretty, beautiful, whatever, who nevertheless are intelligent and bright and witty...
Held at Villanova University, the tournament gave Harvard a chance to prove itself against key opponents. Unfortunately, Harvard's high hopes were deflated virtually from the outset, as the Crimson unexpectedly dropped its opener against Iona, 13-12, in overtime...
...building, now referred to only as the Holmes Field Building, is part of an estimated $150 million drive to "improve the educational climate of the School," Dean Robert C. Clark said in a statement at the outset of the drive. Eighty million dollars has been raised to date...