Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brighter note are Jacob Broder as Costard and Francesca Delbanco as Boyet, the Princess' chamberlain. Costard is a classic Shakespearean clown who counteracts the pretentious nobility by his own plain speaking. Broder's enthusiasm is infectious and he gets more laughs than anyone else in the show. Broder even pulls off a rather contrived time warp joke that could easily have flopped. Boyet is one of the few mature characters in the play and Uphoff (who doubles as her own costume designer) stresses this by contrasting Boyet's formal suits with the other women's hippie attire. Delbanco does...
...Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School moved last week to a new location in Jamaica Plain, said Dean of the Law School Robert C. Clark...
...were blank on the rating side and 12 were blank on the comment side. Of the 12 commenting I would say that four were constructive ("his somewhat caustic manner sometimes hides his concern and can be disconcerting"), two were simply laudatory ("Adam was great!") and two were just plain rude ("leads idiotic discussion")--though not necessarily accurate...
...version of Huck's wayward youth gets most of Twain's words right, even if the music sounds like a TV jingle. Huck (plucky Elijah Wood) eludes his troglodyte father (Ron Perlman, doing an uncanny Tom Waits impression) for an eventful honeymoon on a raft with Nigger Jim (just plain Jim here, in a nicely balanced performance by Courtney B. Vance). Huck's runaway mouth gets them in trouble, and his wit gets them...
...goes for "administrative overhead," producing savings that, according to the General Accounting Office, would be sufficient to insure everyone, without deductibles, coinsurance or Oregon-style rationing. It would still be the job of the new single payer to crack down -- not on consumer overutilization but on rampant profiteering and plain old corruption (doctors referring patients to their own profitmaking CAT-scanning facilities, for example...