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Paul Frohock '79 is the ambitious writer-actor-director who tries to mold Forbidden Fruits into a cogent plea for environmental sanity. The play lacks the credibility, acting, and surprise, however, that it needs to impress the polluting zealot with the gravity and foolishness of his actions. Polluting zealots aside, the play never seems to establish a rapport with its audience, leaving Forbidden Fruii up on the stage, away from the audience, a simple dialogue between some actors...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: Almost Is Not Enough | 11/29/1997 | See Source »

...Fortier testified under a plea agreement granting him immunity from prosecution. He plead guilty to receiving stolen weapons and will be sentenced after the prosecutors in Nichols' case grade his performance on the witness stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Turn Disappoints Trial | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...went to E.F. Au Pair, one of only eight agencies licensed by the U.S. government to bring au pairs to this country. Surely most mothers could picture themselves hiring Woodward, and feeling lucky to get her. In an interview televised the night before the verdict, Eappen made her own plea for mercy: "What if I was a stay-at-home mom and went to the movies and this happened?" But Eappen is looking for rationality where there is little. Consider this irony: no doubt many of the people jamming the airwaves condemning Eappen for going to work and leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOME ALONE | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...comic timing that is going on all around him, which only adds more humor to his plight. As Yossarian, Leach remains stoic and earnest, but inevitably boring compared to his neurotic comrades. Watching him grow increasingly frustrated at their madness gives the audience fodder for amusement rather than a plea for sympathy. Leach portrays the perfect Yossarian--a man who has as many cyclical complexes as those around him, but whose personality grows pale in comparison to the army-green circus going on around...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Catch the Fever | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Race and Intercultural Relations, announced that the debate would move to Sanders Theatre. Again students leapt from their seats despite Counter's plea that they move in an orderly fashion...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crowds Flood Debate | 11/4/1997 | See Source »

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