Word: puppets
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Last Friday night, as most students were invading New Haven to enjoy pre-Game festivities, one event on campus was still able to draw a standing-room-only crowd. I refer of course to the annual Physics Puppet Show, accurately billed this year as an “External Review of the Harvard Physics Faculty.” And this year, like the last, the puppet show did not disappoint...
...uninitiated, it is difficult to explain exactly what this rich tradition, started in the early 1980s, is all about. Basically, the show consists of a large-scale, two-hour roast of the physics Faculty, masterminded by second-year graduate students. The “puppet show” is actually a multi-media presentation, involving music, slides, video, crude animations and, of course, puppets, to create sketch comedy pieces involving prominent members of the physics Faculty. Before their roast, Faculty members join other graduate students to hobnob over beer and chips, and then file into Jefferson 250 to await their...
...group successfully raised enough money to send Fokin’s family back to Russia in 1997 and unveiled the Igor Fokin Memorial Sculpture Project—a bronze statue of Fokin’s anteater puppet “Doo Doo”—just this past September. The small, whimsical stature sits on one of the granite pedestals in Brattle Square, where Fokin worked most often and performed his final show...
...like doctors scrape by on $15 a month. Now Uzbeks have reason to be increasingly worried: three days after the U.S. began its strikes on Afghanistan, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Tahir Yuldash, announced that his fighters and the Taliban would launch a jihad against the "puppet government" of Uzbekistan. Says one Uzbek businessman: "Something had to be done about terrorism in Afghanistan. It is important for our security. But we can't do it alone. Now we have the United States with us. That is good...
...with an almost crippling fear of leaving his apartment comes to his appointment. He is reorganizing his closets, "to do something normal." My ten-year-old patient recites the plot of every horror movie she has ever seen, complete with severed body parts. She acts out a puppet show in which scary monsters eat her, and then me. She wonders if kids can get drafted. My gentle Buddhist patient from China comes, sits quietly, says, "I never in my life heard of such a thing happening." I fight back tears because her simple observation captures our common experience...