Word: rumpledness
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Robinson Hall and University Hall have spindly metal bannisters, but a Robinson slide is thrilling, if scary. Widener Library has prepubescent brass rails, but if you slide on these, you will truly be shaking the golden rule: Rumpled professors may scurry to their files, but the officious bookchecker is sure...
Quite in keeping with his character -and some would say his politics-he is somewhat ambidextrous, using his right hand to write, playing tennis with his left. He was lefthanded as a boy, but his father tied a string to his left wrist at the dinner table. When Nelson tried...
Alan Bates makes a fine, fleet Butley. "Oh, if only they'd get on with it and let us teach!" he moans as he invokes the weight of spurious administrative duties to dodge yet another tutorial. He never allows the irony to become too heavy at moments like that...
These goings-on may be taken as the kind of crazy crime and panachement that Stoppard displayed so well in The Real Inspector Hound. But the playwright also offers a long, rambling monologue by Dotty's rumpled husband, George Moore. Moore is a professor of moral philosophy. In his...
As a Washington "bachelor," the el der O'Neill has roomed for 21 years in Northwest Washington with Congress man Edward Boland from Springfield, Mass. They make an odd couple: Boland is the neat one, patiently tidying up their three-room apartment after O'Neill has rumpled it...