Word: servant
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...away." For a price: $260. And that was how two-year-old Phanupong Khaisri ended up in the U.S. He was a prop in the arms of a couple who had to look like a family: the man was part of an international prostitution ring, the woman an indentured servant he was smuggling into the U.S. Caught by the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the Los Angeles International Airport on April 11, the adults were swiftly deported. The INS was about to send the boy back too when the local Thai community got wind of the case. Who, they demanded...
...collar work. Just as workin' the line at U.S. Steel was no walk in the park in 1946, passing papers in the tower is no great joy. My dad did it for 41 years at the Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. He was, sad to say, a white-collar indentured servant...
...ashram entered our vocabulary, and gurus emerged to offer us paths to enlightenment. A Hindu swami calling himself Maharishi Mahesh Yogi introduced Transcendental Meditation to the West and collected celebrity followers; and a fired Ivy League psychology professor named Richard Alpert went to India and became Ram Dass, servant of God. Three decades later, they are both back in the news...
...with anecdotes ("Richard Burton once peed in his armor, and the tinkle made the other actors giggle!"). Students without speaking parts play music that would make old Will squirm: Aegeon's plea for a stay of execution is accompanied by the Beatles' Help!, and the pursuit of a portly servant is enlivened with Queen's Fat Bottomed Girls. An overhead video shows the screaming crowds in Godzilla as the actors chase Antipholus around the classroom. "Shakespeare's fun," Esquith says. "And they learn tons of vocabulary...
...into the Agassiz Theater this weekend. Directed by Rachel Eisenhaure '02, Rodgers and Hart's jazzy 1965 tribute to Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors uses the plot (and, in some places, borrows heavily from the text) of the earlier play. Two sets of identical twins-one the servant and one the master-are separated in a shipwreck during infancy. Their father/master, Aegean, dedicates his life to reuniting his splintered family. To complicate matters, he arrives in the forbidden city of Ephesus, for which he is sentenced to die. That very day, his son Antipholus (Ari Appel '03) arrives, similarly searching...