Word: placide
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...African-American student at a placid Vermont college is getting anonymous hate notes. The college responds, predictably, with race-sensitivity forums. Rebecca Gilman's new play, having its world premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, could have been an easy diatribe against racism and the perils of political correctness. Instead, it's a complex, unnerving look at the way real people navigate between them both. Mary Beth Fisher gives a penetrating performance as the dean whose life is unraveled by the case. Gilman sets the play entirely in the dean's office yet creates a more convincing world offstage than...
...despite all their negative traits, are pretty efficient. That's the only plausible explanation for how David Kelley--a former lawyer and the creator of Chicago Hope, Ally McBeal, The Practice, this fall's Snoops, an additional new half-hour version of Ally and two upcoming feature films, Lake Placid and Mystery, Alaska--is able to write the great majority of the scripts for his projects. Joyce Carol Oates, I still can't figure...
...Jonas did this past weekend was turn in one of the most clutch goaltending performances in recent Crimson history, nearly willing his team to advance to Lake Placid...
...Harvard needed was a tie to stamp its ticket to Lake Placid...
...trip to take Placid was in reach, but No. 3 Rensselaer scored two third period goals to elevate it to a 4-2 victory...