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...reactions of the more than 350 Cantabrigians who packed City Hall last night were equally unfavorable. Tenant activists passed out "I Pledge to Resist" stickers for rent control supporters, while others pledged a campaign of civil disobedience starting January...
...family of genetically engineered foods continues to grow. The FDA declared five more genetically enhanced vegetables -- three tomatoes with longer shelf lives and a squash and potato that resist common crop pests -- safe for human consumption...
...even here at Harvard--have never had a credit card of their own by the time they come to college. The attraction of suddenly being able to walk out of a store with a big-screen TV by merely signing on the bottom line occasionally proves too much to resist...
...sober matter of staging Shakespeare, such audaciousness is hard to resist -- though a lot of Chicago theatergoers have been able to. Typically, a third of the people who show up at the Goodman Theatre to see Sellars' ingenious reworking of The Merchant of Venice walk out before the evening is over. It's no mystery why: the evening isn't over for nearly four hours (and this is one of Shakespeare's relatively short plays). Beyond that, the production pretty much upends everything the audience has come to expect from one of Shakespeare's most troubling but reliably entertaining comedies...
...most part good; however, the roles lend themselves to overacting because they are more form than substance and rely for characterization on idiosyncratic turns of phrase. Nonetheless, Howard, Siegel and Murad, who in addition to Nicky appears as various bit characters, give very strong performances, and manage to resist their characters' tendencies towards irritating extravagance...