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Since that autumn morning more than half a century ago, little in McArthur's life has been planned. Had it been, it is unlikely the former schoolboy from Canada would today enjoy the understated elegance of the first floor corner office of the Business School's Morgan Hall...
...spread of AIDS in Brazil, for example, is attributed to homosexual behavior on the part of ostensibly heterosexual males. In the British upper class, homosexual experience used to be a not uncommon feature of male adolescence. Young Robert Graves went off to World War I pining desperately for his schoolboy lover, but returned and eventually married. And, no, he did not spend his time in the trenches buggering his comrades-in-arms...
Crick: The structure of DNA gives the game away, once you've seen it. A schoolboy can understand it. It's not something like relativity or quantum mechanics. It's a Tinkertoy, as somebody once said...
...both director and actor, Rigby robs the play of much of its natural energy. The play's biggest disappointment is his portrayal of Lord Byron. Shea's Bysshe quivers in his presence like a nervous schoolboy, but Byron as Rigby plays him doesn't seem to merit this idolatry. He appears middle-aged and harmless, although the poet was only 28 at the time. It is hard to imagine him climbing drainpipes after rich young heiresses and sleeping his way across Europe...
John Leguizamo gave himself an acting tour de force as all six members of a troubled Hispanic family, from nerdy schoolboy Miggy to bone-dumb Desert Storm veteran Crazy Willie to their amiably lowlife mother Gladyz, in hilarious monologues that moved beyond performance art to become a true and deeply moving play. The production by Chicago's Goodman Theater transferred to off- Broadway...