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...person, Wilson is clearly a man who has suffered. When he's not engaged, his face looks blank, even deadened, and when he is engaged, he still seems to be at a slight remove, just around a corner the dimensions of which only he, perhaps, can measure. He speaks and sings out of the side of his mouth, which gives the impression that he has suffered a stroke. In fact it is a function of deafness in his right ear and is something he has done since childhood. While he is attentive to questions and lucid in his answers, being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Vibrations | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...play rapidly establishes a tone of high emotion which is sustained throughout the whole of the production. The actors are aided in this by effective, movie soundtrack-like music at crucial points. The slight distancing effect of the music is countered by the characters' frequent exhortations to the audience, made especially effective in a small theater like the Loeb Ex. As the play heads towards its catastrophic ending, and Creon receives a come-uppance beyond his wildest nightmares, there is a brief moment in which the General (David Modigliani '02) reflects on the horrors of the Civil War. He describes...

Author: By Carmen J. Iglesias, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Revamped Antigone | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...been playing really hard and we have as good a chance as winning as anyone else out there. The difference between the top and bottom now is really slight," said Harvard coach Ronn Tomassoni. "We don't want to give RPI anything, we want to make them earn...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Heads to RPI in ECAC Playoff Opener | 3/12/1999 | See Source »

...mean one less magazine column, one less $3,000 honorarium for giving a speech to a business group and even one less journal article. In short, it would mean a slight shift in priorities. But surely it would also mean a more meaningful academic experience for many undergraduates. Wouldn't this be welfare-enhancing? CARLO N. FORCIONE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UC Affirmative Action Needed to Balance Ledger | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...that diplomacy, combined with the sobering possibility of nuclear disaster, may have impressed the two traditional enemies to reassess how they deal with each other. "The biggest fear on the subcontinent," says McAllister, "has always been the hair-trigger nature of the enmity between India and Pakistan: The smallest slight always held the potential to escalate into all-out war." Now, he says, the two countries seem to have "loosened the rope of their relationship a bit"---and thus given themselves, and the rest of the world, more time to think before reacting to unexpected events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India and Pakistan: Let's Talk for a Change | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

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