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...extremely annoying Reverend Parris performed by HLS student Joseph A. Nuccio. The fact that it happened to be his house was only visible by the program. All of the other houses in which scenes were set appeared exactly the same, with one low coffee table serving as the only prop, a makeshift table or chair as necessity required. Nuccio was a fitting Reverend Parris, sufficiently pompous and dense to the point of aggravation. He announced at one point with grandiosity that naturally amused the audience, that he had graduated from Harvard University and was therefore superior to all who surrounded...
...cast, outside of Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and their foil, a player (Mike B. Hoagland ’07), is more or less restricted to prop status; none of them talk with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern for long enough to make an impression. Yet all of the actors give the sense that there are unspoken depths to their characters—a crucial skill, considering that their characters have far more space to themselves in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Polonius (Tim M. Marrinan ’06) is suitably obsequious, Ophelia (Andrea M. Spillmann ’07) is weepy when weepiness...
...juniors, a night at Gillian’s and a barbecue for sophomores and Loker nights for first-years. And Mahan’s vice president, Michael R. Blickstead ’05, says the Council hopes to dole out more money to House Stein Clubs to help prop up social life...
...aftereffects of Sept. 11. The smaller carriers complain that taxpayers should not be asked to keep financing those airlines' inefficient ways. "What kind of public policy is it," asks Edward Faberman, a Washington lobbyist who helped compose the letter, "to relieve bad management from their mistakes and to prop up dinosaur companies?" Responds a spokeswoman for United: "These moves are what's needed to be competitive in this environment, and they are being done in cost-effective ways." --By Sally B. Donnelly
...strongly encourage people not to prop doors at any time,” he said. “They...