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Lincoln appears briefly in his theater seat in the balcony, but the subject of the play is the assassin, not the victim. Afterwards, the audience sees Booth curled up with a bottle of wine and an old blanket. His pain and confusion is almost pitiable, yet McNeely's performance was also chilling enough to make the audience feel guilty for sympathizing with an assassin. Juliene James '00 appears onstage with him as The Balladeer, a narrator of sorts who comments on and interacts with the characters, falling somewhere in between Jiminy Cricket and a Greek chorus. She cuts into Booth...
...promised land of real electoral power. Yes, Reed built the coalition into a prominent faction within the party, but as a nonprofit advocacy group, it was barred from out-of-the-closet electioneering. It also proved frustratingly ineffective in influencing postelection governance. Reed's ambitious corrective: while keeping a seat on the Christian Coalition's board, he will launch a political consulting firm, Century Strategies, that will bring forth candidates who adhere to the movement's principles and also have wider appeal to the general electorate. "We have enjoyed enormous success in the arena of issue politics," he told TIME...
...very beginning of this production is a clever expression of how the play wants viewers to both recognize and share the pathos of the characters' unimportance. While everyone is still taking a seat and the lights are still on, the show begins with Rosencrantz tossing a coin and finding that it consistently turns up heads. There is no dialogue, other than Rosencrantz repeating "heads" every time he picks up the coin. Although this action will eventually introduce some of Stoppard's playfully theoretical elements, what's happening on stage doesn't yet seem important enough for the audience to stop...
LONDON: The Conservatives' eighteen-year rule appeared to be ending with exit polls showing Tony Blair's Labour party cruising to a landslide victory in Britain's parliamentary elections. Early projections show Labour walking away with 409 seats, Tories with 177 seats and Liberal Democrats with 45 seats. If these estimates hold, it would mean an enormous 232-seat majority for Labour and the worst showing of the century for Conservatives. "There's this enormous feeling in Britain that the Tories have been around too long and it?s time for a change, and that's extraodinarily powerful," reports TIME...
...There exists a certain respect for them among my young Russian friends. For instance, I'll never forget the the time I was riding on the bus and my two friends said to me, "If any grandmothers come on the bus, get up right away and give them your seat. Or else, they'll hit you with their purse. They hit really hard, too!" I remember thinking how strange it was that elderly women command such strength and have such a strong image. Then I think about "A Week Like Any Other," and it all makes sense to me. Anyone...