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...rendition of the play’s Pyramus and Thisbe scene. Shakespeare’s purposely atrocious play-within-the-play reaches almost sublime levels of comic absurdity, and is the only scene that truly succeeds. John Kuntz—who plays a caricatured version of Peter Quince to perfection??begins the scene by acting out the play with action figures. His madcap energy fully sustains this feat until the other actors take over with even more delightfully embarrassing antics. Walsh’s Pyramus performs an intensely physical death sequence in which he literally throws himself about...
...Braille.” He readily acknowledges the novel’s influence on his own first novel, “Angels;” “I could see immediately that 10 years’ exile hadn’t saved me from the influence of its perfection??I’d taught myself to write in Gardner’s style, though not as well.” That novel also deals heavily in the fallout of the Flower Generation, though its essence is more directly derivative—drug abuse, madness, and poetic flourishes...
...bite and, to my dining companion’s unsurprised boredom, chronicled each delicious detail that made the platter so utterly delectable. As I clawed the remnants of sticky, sweet cheese off my devoured plate, my blabbering became a monologue on how the dish—so close to perfection??might yet be bettered still...
...season, held the shifty Yale quarterback to 39 total yards. And a team that was the most penalized in the Ivy League this season was flagged just twice for a grand total of 15 yards in its final game. It may not have wrapped up a season of complete perfection??we’re often reminded that this team was two plays from 10-0—but on Saturday, they were as perfect as could be. —Staff writer Brad Hinshelwood can be reached at bhinshel@fas.harvard.edu...
Even the real life warfare allusions are clichéd and ridiculous. Not only are Russia and North Korea on the radar first, but Cumming’s tough “I expect nothing less than perfection?? stance is countered by Wade’s poignant remark about combat: “If it’s controlled by moral people it will be moral.” Right...