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Prina thus suggests that the public’s tendency to prize the more prosaic elements of art often constrain other forms of creativity. For the groups who organize happenings, his comments underscore the necessity that their events remain spontaneous and work free of college bureaucracy. However, the defiant nature of the work—working in public space without the direct consent of College officials—leads to conflict with the Arts Collective’s, Present!’s and other groups’ use of University resources...
...courtroom examination, Jenkins for the first time recounted publicly the circumstances of his defection. In a halting and gravelly drawl, he revealed that he wound up in North Korea not because he was abducted or because he had any ill will for the U.S., but for a far more prosaic reason: he was scared. Although he had been in the Army for six years and was on his second tour in Korea, his November 1964 deployment there was by far the most dangerous of his career, with frequent patrols along the DMZ and the enemy occasionally shooting at U.S. Army...
...everything else was a drug to keep me going until you were with me"). Yet showcasing these letters gives us a sexual Greene at the expense of a mischievous Greene or the anguished Catholic Greene. And each time Greene's prose appears on the page, Sherry's seems more prosaic by comparison...
Well, I simply love theater and, more generally, acting. I’ve done it for pretty much my entire life and I guess I just like becoming someone else for a time, as prosaic as that might sound. I’m also definitely addicted to the rush I get when I’m in front of the audience and to the ability to manipulate my role emotionally. I know it may sound kind of sadistic put that way, but I think that ability is really the essence of the rush...
...chief of staff to Texas Republican Congresswoman Kay Granger in 1996. Rove, Granger's campaign consultant, hooked Mehlman up with Bush, then Governor of Texas. Mehlman became field director of the Bush 2000 presidential campaign, in which he focused, as he does in this year's race, on the prosaic mechanics of politics. "I'm not a guru," says Mehlman. "I'm a systems person." --By Matthew Cooper