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...break up the essential monotony of a dialectic discussion through physical movement and some pleasant comic touches: Mendoza's four brigands become four devils, horns and all, who periodically cross the stage with admirably solemn expressions, replenishing drinks and once bearing a crucifix that is passed around like a specimen "on view...
...Sally Vader (Danton S. Char '98), an arch-browed failed villainness named Irma Geddon (Jesse J. Hawkes '99) and a nerdy Bob Marley named Cal Ipsobeat (Robert E. Schlesinger '00). Not to mention the undeniable show-stealer by virtue of costume, Hugh Jegg (Jason R. Mills '99), an enormous specimen of the ovarian persuasion who did a mean Philip Marlowe imitation...
...relish being called an "extremist" for having a definite opinion on the abortion issue and for being able to find no point where a fetus miraculously becomes a human being if it were not one all along. (It may not be a completely developed specimen of humanity, but then again, neither is a ten-year-old.) I don't run around with shotguns (neither does any pro-lifer I know), but I can't help hoping that the laws of the country will change to protect these "least among us," as many of our other articles of legislated morality already...
...Wild Hare," the first cartoon to star Bugs Bunny, shows the rabbit's evolution. Even in this earliest specimen, though, the style and substance of the Bugs and Elmer cartoons are clearly defined: Bugs takes to cross dressing to fool the wily hunter. "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!" was made years later, but is essentially the same cartoon with added finesse. In this update, despite Daffy's attempts to stop Bugs' beguiling banter, Elmer's gun keeps displacing Daffy's break from his head...
...prints are presented in sharp contrast to the unforgiving whiteness of the walls. They are now subjected to the cold eye of the observer, who must suppress imagination and base interpretation solely on the abundant text provided. The painting loses its sense of wonder and mystery and becomes a specimen to be looked at and not an entity to be explored and conversed with...