Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this performance derives largely from the magnificent performances of William Burke '99 as Oberon and Michelle McEwen '00 as Titania, the warring king and queen of the fairy court, whose power struggles in the forest on Midsummer's Night lead to the comedic sexual mishaps that drive the plot of the play. Besides imbuing the queen with the characteristics usually assigned to her--pride, haughtiness, allure--McEwen's Titania is also marvelously ferocious: the actress adds an unabashed sexual aggressiveness and a cuttingly sarcastic sense of humor. Burke, in a less flamboyant but perhaps more richly-textured performance, works similar...
...plot. Slowly, surely, they're taking reading period away from us. The official calendar lists "reading period" as starting May 3. So then why do I have lecture and section all this week...
...blast she denied that McVeigh and her husband had anything to do with the bombing. Both husband and wife changed their stories after agreeing to a plea bargain. Michael Fortier faces up to 23 years in prison for federal charges that include failure to notify authorities of the bombing plot. Jurors today also saw the mangled rear axle from the Ryder rental truck that carried the explosives. An identification number, found on the 250-pound axle, was traced to a Ryder truck rented from a body shop in Junction City, Kansas. Employees there helped produced the sketches that...
...claims, a provision that would require an act of Congress. "No one is prepared to give the industry blanket immunity," says Matthew Myers, executive vice president of the National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids and a participant in the talks. Moreover, Myers adds, "this is a movie in mid-plot." The plot will thicken as negotiations continue this week...
...gookum-like lava is less smothering than the plot cliches: our hero (Tommy Lee Jones) and his perpetually hysterical child (Gaby Hoffmann), ever blundering into catastrophe; the spiky geologist (Anne Heche) who has to exclaim "Oh, God!" 46 times; silliest of all, the ornery whites and blacks who when covered with gray ash learn that, gee, Armageddon is color-blind. And just once in a disaster film, could a dog please...