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...level of politics, whether on campus, locally or nationally--the words our elected officials and candidates choose to use and the ways they choose to use them can reveal their natures, including the raw instinct for survival or their commitment to honest discourse. Elections are often about the energy displayed by the candidates, a sense of experience with decisions made under pressure and a perceived quality of inherent honesty. The vice president, whom I have often admired, knows this very well. It is not too late for him to embellish less, qualify less and declare more...
...mean that opinions can be pretty raw when they arrive. Oh, sometimes they are delightfully fresh and tasty and nutritious, of course. Sushi quality. Sometimes they stink...
...wants American politics to be all bitterness. There ought to be a happy middle ground between we're-all-friends and I-hate-you. But if you had to choose on the basis of raw honesty, there's a good case for the latter...
Students get their feet wet in shows staged by Anderson and Hernandez, and three ex-students now have development contracts in the big time. But it's a long shot for all of them, says Jim Ross, host of the TV show Monday Night Raw and talent boss for the WWF, where trash talking is an essential skill. "The biggest enemy some of them have is the English language...
This problem becomes more troublesome, however, when combined with other shortcomings in the first act that detract from the cast's raw talent. Eve (Jac Huberman '01) questions relentlessly, but the strength of her part undermines Adam's (Steve Toub '01) on-stage presence. Toub appears uncomfortable on stage, and his voice only emerges fully confident at the end of Act I. The theater, moreover, occasionally feels cramped, especialy during the large ensemble numbers. Almost every scene has the storytellers, or chorus, sitting in white robes on the edges of the stage. And perhaps most importantly, the vocal coherence...