Word: shuman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday's computer fair in the Science Center, Christina M. Shuman '03 seemed in her element. Instead of wandering around with a lost look in her eyes, as many first-years were, Shuman was chatting and laughing with groups of friends...
...hard to spot the first-year students, like Shuman, who already seem to be "connected": they're off to meet up with friends outside of their entryway and they're seen walking around en masse. Annenberg? Not a problem--they already have seats reserved for them with their high school buddies...
...feel like I have many acquaintances," not close friends at Harvard, Shuman said...
...seems like an exercise in futility to try to summarize a Gilbert and Sullivan plot, but the bare bones may suffice. Our young hero, Nanki-Poo (Jerry B. Shuman '98), the son of the Mikado of all Japan, has fled his father's court in the face of his upcoming nuptials to Katisha (Tuesday Rupp), a ferocious elderly noblewoman. While disguised as a wandering minstrel, Nanki-Poo has met and fallen in love with the delicious Yum-Yum (Caline Yamakawa)--but their amours were frustrated by the fact that the tailor Ko-Ko (Paul D. Siemens '98), the guardian...
...have been allowed to ride on the abilities of a few, letting mediocrity slide by around the edges. Fortunately, that isn't an issue here; each of the central players demonstrate a startlingly high level of energy. As the young romantic protagonists Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo, Yamakawa and Shuman are thoroughly engaging, projecting the strange blend of world-wisdom and innocence that make Gilbert and Sullivan's heroes so appealing--by the time he's finished his introductory song, "A Wandering Minstrel I," Shuman has won us over. Siemens's Ko-Ko is thoroughly annoying and amusing; more effective...