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...portrayal of Sebastian as a woman is also interesting, but the text is not consistently altered to accomodate the modification in sex. In the first scene of Act V, Prospero refers to her as "brother" and "sir," when she has previously been addressed as "madame." This mistake underscores the insensitivity and carelessness with which Shakespeare's text is handled...
...Community in 1973, the effects of the country's psychological detachment were still on display last week when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's go-it-alone refusal to join the rest of the European Community in plans for political and monetary union prompted the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Howe. Ignoring his gentle nudgings toward greater European cooperation, Thatcher declared, "In my view, we have surrendered enough...
Actor Christopher Hall perhaps takes his role as Ruiz a bit too literally. In one scene, Ruiz declares to Pizarro that he wants nothing more than to be in Peru with his master. "Being your page is enough, sir," Ruiz says. Submission seems to be Hall's implicit motif throughout the performance, as he is completely unable to assert his character. He is too burdened with flat delivery and inertia...
...LITTLE did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel... You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" These words were originally directed at Joe McCarthy, but they could as easily apply to some of the Senator's modern day moral and ideological counterparts at the The Dartmouth Review...
With a John Wayne swagger and a growl like a grizzly, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf confronted a camouflage-clad Special Forces company newly arrived in the forbidding desert of Saudi Arabia. "How long have you guys been standing out in the hot sun?" he demanded. "Two hours, sir," replied a soldier. "I think you're tough enough to take it," said the commander. "You better be. We may have some plans for you later...