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...made some snide comment," McLaughlin remembers. "Something like 'at least you [ROTC] guys are good for something...
...easy enough to be snide and not recognize steps that the University has taken in recent years to improve our undergraduate experiences. The Danforth Center--created to train section leaders and help professors plan courses--has grown in budget and size in the past few years. The center offers orientation for teaching fellows at the beginning of each semester and various teaching workshops throughout the year. Teaching fellows and professors can be videotaped and can review the tapes with the center's trained staff...
...played a man in the past two Pudding shows, it is somewhat surprising to see him playing a woman, particularly one that's supposed to be the heartthrob of the show. He carries off his new persona with grace and humor. His "Wilhemina Wordsworth" character is melodramatic yet snide, and Tomarken plays her to the hilt. And his excellent rendition of the gospel tune "I'm Getting Married and I'm Mourning" is definitely one of the high points of the show...
...people breathe; the detective's torch-singer ex-girlfriend, now reduced to offering more private entertainments; and a spooky guru bilking the faithful. Librettist Larry Gelbart cheerily exploits these cliches without sneering at the genre. In telling the Hollywood side of the story, however, he is at times as snide as in his just closed satire of Iran-contra, Mastergate. But when he becomes cranky about the writer's woeful lot, the show is redeemed by the wit and humanity of David Zippel's lyrics and the zip of Cy Coleman's score, which delights in the past without sinking...
Women have always been shut out of the halls of political decision-making. Only 25 women are in Congress. They comprise less than 16 percent of state legislatures. With men holding the clutch on power, subtly putting down women's involvement with snide remarks like Babbitt's and overtly barring women from behind-the-scenes decision-making, the attitudes and means of exclusion are reinforced...