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...production combine to give a startling and witty interpretation of Durang's wacky portrait of love, marriage and family. Before the actors enter, set designer Molly Hughes' interesting set foreshadows the wacky perspectives that are to come. A traditional, colonial style room resides on a stage that slants forward severely (making one wonder how the actors manage to avoid tumbling straight into the audience) with walls that slant together toward a distant focal point. It gives the impression that we are always looking at a photograph with skewed proportions, and illuminates very severely the sad fact that...
Clinton--or, more accurately, the Clinton team--is very clever to shift the American people's attention to scribblers, paparazzi and all the professionals who make their living off of buzz. Members of the media--involved in a business, not a nonprofit service--are always tempted to slant the story to further their own purposes. Consider, for example, that the person who encouraged Linda S. Tripp to bring Monica Lewinsky's story into the open was Lucianne Goldberg, a New York book agent. (Though her Republican sympathies no doubt had a large role in her desire to expose Clinton...
Wilford started the half a perfect 5-for-5. His first incomplete pass should have been a touchdown. On first down from the Holy Cross 24-yard line, he lofted a pass to the front right corner of the end zone to Wilske, who was running a deep slant. Two stepsfrom the ball, Wilske stumbled and the passdropped to the ground...
...want to interest the campus readership. Some articles will be explicitly just campus issues; others will be more international issues that try to take a campus slant," he said...
What seemed like the knockout punch came fiveplays later. From Harvard's 42-yard line,Stambaugh tried to find Falzone on a slant patternto his left. Senior safety Derek Yankoff read theplay perfectly, jumped in front of the receiver,and ran 64 yards down the right sideline, givingHarvard a 17-0 lead...