Word: semis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evening's few original touches comes before the play begins: an all-male band, and a well-rehearsed and spirited band it is, makes its entrance lovely attired in semi-elegant dresses of the era. As the Master of Ceremonies (Mark Meredith), with great mocking ostentation, proclaims in his welcome. "Everything is beautiful...the girls are beautiful even the orchestra is beautiful." Indeed, this sarcasm unveils one of the major themes of Cabaret--ugliness, the ugliness of Nazism. In the production, we are shown how those with a direct view of the movement could be blinded to for could wish...
...filled scene towards the movie's climax, it is never entirely clear just who the protagonist of this film is. Moreover, it it's blood and flesh you're looking for in addition to tears. Mike's Murder is simply not the place to find it. Aside from several semi-suggestive scenes in which Winger lounges in a bubble bath (covered with bubbles, incidentally) and Mike fantasizes about making love to her over the phone, the film is as far a cry from eroticism...
Competition for the positions begins with a lengthy application. Of the 32 applicants from the K-School, selected semi-finalists went through a day-long interview process. Interviewers asked them to simulate a problem solving group dynamics situation, write a memo and prepare an oral brief under time restrictions...
Watching the semi-final game against Kentucky, the Harvard student became a convert. The 19 other students in the room were remembering with horror, a last-second loss to North Carolina in the 1982 finals...
ROBERT LUDLUM NOVELS have always possessed an element of predictability. You've read one, and you've almost read them all. Throw in a worldwide semi-omnipotent conspiracy to take over the free-world, a desperate, haunted and isolated protagonist, a romantic interest, a trusty sidekick and you have all of the elements of a Ludlum thriller. Usually, the book contains a thrilling array of plot twists that leave you gasping for air. But not this time. Never has the predictability of a Ludlum novel nor the lack of conviction or joy in spinning a good tale hit the reader...