Word: rifkin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sworn but love may transform me to an oyster, but...till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me...a fool." Jae Y. Kim '96 gave a rousing call to arms in Henry V's "St. Crispian's Day" speech, and Scott A. Rifkin '97--earlier overeager in the Comedy of Errors scene--redeemed himself in a highly comic turn as the servant Launce from The Two Gentlemen of Verona. (Rifkin shared the spotlight very graciously with his silent partner, the dog Crab, played with impressive fidelity by Rusty, the Lowell House...
...horrendous crime to make a Xerox of someone," argues author and science critic Jeremy Rifkin. "You're putting a human into a genetic straitjacket. For the first time, we've taken the principles of industrial design--quality control, predictability--and applied them to a human being...
...gave up and hopped on the T which came almost immediately. On the blue line we found ourselves sitting across from another Harvard student who asked us why we were so wet. "Ah yes," he nodded knowingly when we told him. "My roommate tried that last year." --Scott A. Rifkin...
Isaac Geldhart (Ron Rifkin), the head of a family publishing house, loves the very bookness of books--their smell, new or old, and the texture of fine paper, on which is written witness to a century of atrocity. But the public may want a sexy novel more than The Architecture of the Holocaust. Anyway, that's the belief of Isaac's grown children (Tony Goldwyn, Sarah Jessica Parker, Timothy Hutton), who wrest control of the house from their father. Soon after, Isaac lapses into a madness that estranges him from the world as fully as from his family...
...moviemaker, and Baitz has cushioned Isaac's fall with a final reconciliation. But Baitz has also expanded his play to give Isaac room to parade his obsessions. A familiar tragedy is made potent by the value of the gift withdrawn: Isaac, whose life is his mind, is losing it. Rifkin sees the majesty in Isaac's madness; he soars as he declines. In an era when films reduce the aged to comic cranks, Rifkin is heroic--the Lear of grumpy...