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...Shady Business” is not a play for the ages, but it doesn’t count that achievement among its goals. If slight in both running time and content, “Shady Business” achieves when it functions as an entertaining production—pleasant, if not particularly memorable and amusing, if not uproariously hilarious...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: Freshman Musical Conventionally Amuses | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

Solo: Uh, had a slight weapons malfunction. But, uh, everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here, now. Thank you. How are you? [Ford winces perfectly at this point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Star Wars Saved My Life | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

Toward the end of the race, the Crimson suffered a slight slip-up—one over which neither Penn nor Navy had any control...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Heavyweight Crew Cruises to Easy Win Over Navy and Penn | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...person, Solondz is stooped and balding with large-framed glasses that magnify his eyes to a bulgingly, distracting level. His slight nervous stutter, nebbish Jewishness, self-mocking, and ingratiating demeanor combine to resemble Woody Allen, an impression mostly confirmed throughout the conversation. Solondz is, in reality, the scion of a middle-class family. He grew up in suburban New Jersey and went to Yale and NYU film school. The only dissonance to the impression of a younger Woody is when an interviewer probes his work and its relationship to his personality; then, he starts resembling an older Woody with...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Todd Solondz’s Inverted World | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

Click has a slight southern accent. He drops the g’s at the end of his words, so that going becomes goin’, talking becomes talkin’. He draws out his vowel sounds. The middle ‘a’ in Atlanta, his current hometown, is drawn out slowly...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Southern Comfort, Harvard-Style | 4/21/2005 | See Source »

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