Word: oyster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Into that vacuum crept sideshowmen like Dwain Esper, who directed (ludicrously) and promoted (brilliantly) the first grindhouse classics. The 1934 Maniac, about a mad scientist's even daffier assistant whose ailurophobia leads him to rip out a cat's eye and eat it ("Why, it's not unlike an oyster"), pretended to be a serious study of dementia praecox. Esper used the old carny come-on--it's so sinful you have to pay to see it--in Tell Your Children, a silly antidrug screed produced by a Los Angeles church group. After he added some skin, Esper retitled...
...pauses and thinks. "Maybe two," he says definitively. "My wife will be really nice, my sister will be out of college and doing really well and I will be really successful in both the music and the film industry. And I'll have the world as my oyster...ceteris parabis, that's the plan...
...gave an excellent performance of Clarence's dream of drowning from Richard III. Clarke was also solidly entertaining as Benedick from Much Ado About Nothing, musing on what follies seize men after they fall in love: "I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster, but...till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me...a fool." Jae Y. Kim '96 gave a rousing call to arms in Henry V's "St. Crispian's Day" speech, and Scott A. Rifkin '97--earlier overeager in the Comedy of Errors scene--redeemed himself...
...course, some have reached their last semester and found guarantees of fame, fortune and success. They have all the answers, and the world is their oyster. Many, though, are intensely searching their souls, plagued by knowledge of dreams deferred--of an entire young life spent like so many greyhounds racing after an elusive rabbit. Then one morning they awake, like Roger did, and realize they'll never reach...
PETER KING (R) District 3 (Eastern Nassau County--Oyster...