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...although he's a confused man and a good friend, he's also a pot-smoking womanizer. Gaines effectively teeters the line between likability and brazenness, allowing the audience to 'keep a tender distance' while evaluating Robert's quandary. Gaines, most famous for his 1,937 performances as the Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, handles the vocal demands of the role with ease. "Being Alive" and "Marry Me a Little" show off both Gaines' understanding of Robert's dilemma and his strong, vibrant voice...
Richard M. Hersch of Florida and Pennsylvania owned a tax-preparation company called Quik Tax Dollars that he turned into Quik cash. In 1991 he filed 145 false returns, using W-2 forms, fictitious names and phony Social Security numbers to get refunds for the phantom taxpayers. He too received refund anticipation loans. When the IRS began to improve its control on Social Security numbers, Hersch started using real numbers to perpetrate the same scam. All told, he filed 431 false electronic returns claiming refunds of $1,131,241. He was nabbed after the IRS raided his office...
These initiatives and others are hardly indicative of a "phantom organization," and it is unfortunate that they were all omitted from The Crimson article...
Other club members said they were surprised to find out they belonged to a phantom organization...
Whether biting or benign, what these supposedly trenchant comebacks have in common is the roar of a phantom crowd; they always speak of other people having spoken them. It's as if they come with a built-in laugh track. And keeping us on track, they provoke in us click responses, the sort of electronic-entertainment reaction we twitch and jerk to more often lately. We hear Not even close, He's history or What's wrong with this picture?, and we immediately sense the power structure of the moment. In fact, we may subconsciously applaud such speakers because they...