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...sordid saga began in early July when the student members of the search committee in charge of finding a new director of Harvard Dining Services complained that they were being ignored by the administration. To begin with, the three students on the committee--unlike administrators--were not provided with the information they needed to properly interview the candidates. The students were also given only one working day's notice before the interviews. According to student member Rudd W. Coffey '97, Dean Lewis subsequently "humiliated" the students during the interview when one of them asked a question answered by the candidate...
...collided with any of our oceans, a tidal wave of Noachian-flood proportions would have deluged every province of the planet. The survivors, should there have been any, wouldn't know what had happened. Perhaps they would refer to an act of God that cleansed the planet of a sordid past. Thank God there are prudent souls working to protect us from such an event. ROBERT D. BROWN Lincoln, Nebraska Via E-mail...
...nuttiness--and Buried Child has more laughs than anything else on Broadway this season--the play has a familiar dramatic structure. Two outsiders, the couple's grandson and his girlfriend, show up, and a sordid family secret is revealed. Buried Child may be Shepard's most coherent and chilling dissection of the American family. Director Gary Sinise's feral production hits just the right pitch--high, but not over the top. The Tony voters fudged a bit when they nominated Buried Child for best new play (Shepard has done some cutting and rewriting). But this season, who can complain...
This match will be especially intense considering it possesses a sordid past...
...bravado and bared arms give him the appearance of an evil ape. With their mindless office banter, Cybill Shepherd and Albert Brooks (playing Betsy's friend in the office) ably demonstrates the fatiguing triviality of the world. Finally, a supporting cast provides a range of characters to fit each sordid niche Travis encounters...