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Then they jam-packed the stage with British folk singer/tradition bearer David Jones, actors Patrick English, Sarah deLima and Richard Snee, the 40-member Revels Chorus, a merry company of Music Hall "artistes," the Pudding Lane Waits, the Dingley Dell Dancers, a parlor orchestra, the Cambridge Symphonic Brass Ensemble, The Pinewoods Morris Meri and the Rose Galliard Northwest Morris, the Pearly King and Queen, and a fake ferret. Do you know what that means? Again, the press release speaks through me. Basically there are a lot of people on stage, no one is particularly charming or memorable, they do ridiculous...
...poverty and despair spread, the ranks of those with nothing to lose will probably swell to dangerous proportions. "People are playing parlor games here in Jakarta. No one is really speaking for the people out there," says the Western diplomat. "This is going to be the Jacobin revolution that we haven't seen yet. This is the dangerous part. It's going to be bloody...
...unsuspecting Lewinsky notes at one point, which the duplicitous Tripp is able to pass off as "my gum." And, of course, we get to hear Monica's voice for the first time. Guessing what the ex-White House intern sounds like has, it seems, become America's favorite parlor game. A recent CNN/USA Today poll shows that 53 percent of respondents suspected she possesed a "high and childish" voice. They were half right. As it turns out, Lewinsky's tone oscillates between excitability and solemnity -- in short, just like any twentysomething with a boyfriend problem...
...whom it may concern: Under the auspices of the Morris Gray Lecture Fund, the Department of English and American Literature and Language, and the Woodberry Poetry Room, Geoffrey Hill will present a reading of his work today. 7 p.m., Thompson Parlor, room 110, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., FREE...
...conference kicked off with a forum addressing labor issues held in the parlor room of Phillips Brooks House last night. The forum brought together many prominent voices in the debate on radical politics...