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Yossarian himself is rarely given the opportunity to participate in the deft 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...
Relationships come the closest to a uniting subject, but what concept album doesn't concern them? In the undulating "She Wanted To Leave," Ween summarizes The Mollusk's typical lyrical plight: "Three men came aboard my ship/And took my true love from me/I couldn't believe/She wanted to leave." Forty-four minutes of the sea as a vehicle for reflection on social interaction may not have been the right choice for Ween's ultimate purpose...
...should call for stricter government enforcement of existing labor and pesticide regulations. Nevertheless, the grape workers' plight as a union cause celebre should not override the inconsistency in the staff's logic that if universally applied would leave our tables bare...
...Drexel is a tech school. The kids here are more concerned with their jobs and the economy than about human rights," said Sean Gallagher, a information systems major from Norwell, Mass. "But I think Hollywood's done a lot with concerts and movies to make people feel the plight of Tibetans...
...serious problem with the water supply. The animals affected are very commonplace; should all the squirrels around Harvard start sprouting developmental abnormalities, we would worry--I hope. Yet perhaps in this isolated case, because scientists are still trying to find the cause of these frogs problems, their plight has not made a particularly strong impact...