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...laughter bouncing off the classroom walls. Esquith's Shakespeare goes down like a strawberry milk shake, as textual analysis is interspersed with anecdotes ("Richard Burton once peed in his armor, and the tinkle made the other actors giggle!"). Students without speaking parts play music that would make old Will squirm: Aegeon's plea for a stay of execution is accompanied by the Beatles' Help!, and the pursuit of a portly servant is enlivened with Queen's Fat Bottomed Girls. An overhead video shows the screaming crowds in Godzilla as the actors chase Antipholus around the classroom. "Shakespeare's fun," Esquith...
These are pictures that have drifted back to us like bodies dumped in a river. They make sickening but essential viewing. (Another new book, Strange Fruit, by David Margolick, shows how even Billie Holiday's great antilynching song once made audiences squirm.) There were lynchings in the Midwestern and Western states, mostly of Asians, Mexicans, Native Americans and even whites. But it was in the South that lynching evolved into a semiofficial institution of racial terror against blacks. All across the former Confederacy, blacks who were suspected of crimes against whites--or even "offenses" no greater than failing to step...
...gold star, then, to Jane and Louise Wilson, to those who dumbfound. Not just to those who make old ladies faint and the complacent squirm, but to those who remind us that making sense of art is not always enough, that sometimes you just have to love it first. Two of the Wilsons' video installations, "Crawl Space" and "Stasi City," are showing at the MIT's List Visual Arts Center through April 9, in a rare U.S. appearance and a lucky one for Boston. To find more of the Wilsons' work now showing in this country you have to travel...
...comfort in the fact that users can opt out of AOL domination by answering "no" to the set-up query, if this case has teeth, such a small concession won't be enough to quell lawyers' lust for dollars - or the public's appetite for seeing an Internet behemoth squirm...
Simply put, the game was won--in journalistic terms, the story was written--and the defense somehow let the Big Red squirm back into...