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...down. Juliet wasn't raised above the stage; instead, she curled up under a quilt on a large mattress, while Romeo stood over her pleadingly. Later, in the Capulet fault, the audience was treated to a ghostly mirror-image of itself--a huge bank of the auditorium seats with pale corpses propped in them, staring...
...Carol and Fernando, who became the self described "Fearsome Foursome" of Latin American lobbying, who devoted much of their waking hours to planning forums, writing newsletters, and organizing marches. "I look at my picture for the Dunster House facebook, and I had circles under my eyes and I was pale," recalls Carol. "Mary and I used to joke about crossing eating and sleeping off of our list of things to do." Fernando remembers that this interest in Latin American causes extended even to Lionel residents who were not very active in COCA. "I think a lot of people...
...Raphaelitism never quite went away. It acquired an armor-plated niche in the English imagination. Its present triumph, symbolized by the Tate show, has nothing to do with dubious cultural cliches like "postmodernist irony." There is no irony in Pre-Raphaelitism. Everything there, from the pale, swooning damozels down to the last grass stem, is the product of unutterable sincerity. Those painters would rather have died of lockjaw than paint anything that was not direct, heartfelt and didactic...
...reason for this discrepancy has to do with the very size and importance of each of the Olympics. In numerical terms at least, the Winter Olympics pale in comparison to their summer sibling. Fewer athletes from fewer countries participate in few events. For many nations, the Winter Olympics simply do not carry the prestige of the Summer Games Ironically, this may be the Winter Olympics' saving grace Exactly because they are not a global media mega-event, the Winter Olympics avoid many of the political and commercial pressures that can turn an idealistic international sporting event into an ideological battleground...
...conclusion, we would assert that the issues of racial unity in general, and Black-Jewish relations in particular, pale in importance next to the opening of this nation's political structure to a segment of the population to which it has traditionally been closed. We further contend that any analysis that attempts to reverse this order is hopelessly skewed and hopelessly racist. Frederick C. Meten '85 Stephen M. Tayler '84 Alan R. Jackson '84 Abner A. Masson '85 Mark E. Brown...