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...encounters. Talaid’s inability to bring cohesion to the play doesn’t derive so much from a lack of talent or emotional investment—both of which she in fact clearly demonstrates—but rather to the Herculean task set forth by Rivera for his protagonist. Marisol must unify, in addition to her own fractured sense of the world, all of the play’s disparate characters in the face of a dying God, absentee angels, isolation and all the world’s other woes. She is additionally charged with the equally...
...angel’s absence, Marisol mingles with a string of strange characters that both shield and threaten her in this destitute landscape, and generally serve to introduce the gamut of this staged world’s social ills, which Rivera suggests, mirror our own. But in his attempt to tackle both epic, existential themes and a countless number of particular social evils, Rivera sacrifices coherent plot structure and consistently well-developed characters...
During FM’s visit, roommate Lionel F. Rivera ’04 makes three unsuccessful attempts to smuggle Jobbins’ donuts out the door, “strapped like a bomb,” as he puts it, to his chest. Jobbins has a pile of boxes in his room that his roommates affectionately call “the compound,” a reference to Palestinian leader Arafat’s compound, recently destroyed by the Israeli government. “[The Israeli-Palestinian conflict] is serious shit,” Jobbins says...
...roommates in the group who are less involved with these particular causes, extreme political bents don’t factor in as much. According to Rivera, living with Adelman and Jobbins and hearing so many conversations about Israel and Palestine makes the rest of the blocking group “tired” of the topic. “We would probably have stronger opinions if we didn’t have to listen to them all the time,” Rivera chuckles...
...feel comfortable criticizing the actions of the troops, even when this criticism is justified. The reporters have taken on the role of a friend trying to explain the soldiers’ plight, rather than an unbiased observer seeking to critically analyze their conduct. When such luminaries as Geraldo Rivera and Oliver North are sent to provide objective coverage on what will be our generation’s defining struggle, journalistic integrity comes under fire that is as unremitting as that raining down on the troops outside Basra...