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...that Larson had written for himself to perform as a one-man show; its original title was 30/90 and it told of his anxiety at turning 30 in 1990. This production, directed by Scott Schwartz ’98, expanded the cast to three, adding two additional characters to portray Larson’s best friend and his lover (as well as various other small parts...

Author: By Adam R. Perlman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Everybody's Got the Right | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...well as many other Asian countries, such a separation is imperative. It is essential that the media in the United States realize that despite the psychological comfort that can be derived from creating an “other,” it is actually in their own interests to portray a balanced picture of China and to help Americans understand a country that is becoming increasingly significant. Apparently, Americans need all the help they...

Author: By Emma R.F. Nothmann, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Understanding Asia | 9/11/2001 | See Source »

Rushdie said the part had been hard to play since it required him to portray himself as sneering and arrogant, two traits he normally lacks...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rushdie Discusses New Short Novel | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...only strictly literary problem might seem to arise among those authors whose novels describe the lives of the poor. It would not make sense, or be good business, for example, to portray the Joad family traveling west in a sleek eight-cylinder Packard sedan, Tom Joad's diamond Rolex flashing in the Dust Bowl air. The poor do not make good ads..... Or do they? Might be edgy possibilities here, a kind of Walker Evans chic - a good spread in Vanity Fair, page after page of gaunt black-and-white shots, weathered Depression faces, a certain erotic poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Novels Become Commercials | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

Shepard’s script demands that both Lee, Peter Richards ’01, and Austin, Sam McKnight (a Tufts student), know their characters intimately and portray them with a credible sense of familial history. Neither Richards nor McKnight were able to make the relationship believable; the connection needed to pull the audience into the action never evolved...

Author: By Jeremy W. Blocker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: True West Intense Yet Unrealized | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

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