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...They will drink by the handle (seriously damage their bodies), compete in wet T-shirt contests (exploit their sexuality) and become people who they are not (frat boys and sorority girls from state schools). Best yet is that these Spring Break revelers can return to campus the following week slighter tanner and perhaps a bit less healthy than when they left but for the most part able to carry on with their routine Harvard persona...
...does he. There's no establishment like the Republican Establishment. These guys don't complain; they don't wobble; they won't entertain the notion that Bush is slighter than many others in their exclusive club, like Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson, who considered running but didn't when he concluded that "Bush was more famous, had more money and was better looking." Bush has advantages the rest of them don't--lineage, family crest and primogeniture--not to mention that modern tool of war, a massive treasury. He also wooed them, as if he were back at his fraternity house...
...Robbins has done this with great success once before, in his 1983 hit, Glass Pieces. That ballet was a boldly theatrical vision of city life--densely populated, aggressive, peremptory, endlessly churning. Because their music is superficially quite similar, the two works are bound to be compared. Eight Lines is slighter and more evanescent but it is also more intimate and charming, and it is ravishing to look...
...still one of the American theater's most mysteriously buried treasures, Linney, who also teaches writing, is obviously speaking from the heart here. Laughing Stock's other short plays are slighter: an anecdote about death and telephones and a shaggy-dog story about an old woman's discovery that her 70-year marriage was founded on a sly joke. But they too are marked by Linney's singular talent for stating wild ideas with high, simplifying intelligence and for drawing deft portraits of the half mad in which not a line is misplaced or wasted...
...slumped over, feeling awful. They're carrying the old male role around on their backs, the authoritarian provider, but it doesn't work any more. They've got female bosses now, and their wives and kids are rebelling." D'Aguanno, 37, a tall man, somewhat slighter than Drolette and no fan of Hollywood's Duke, says they have all noticed that the disarmament movement, to pick an example, is "about two-thirds women, which is fine"-he says this in the way people speak when they mean something is not fine-"and the rest...