Word: stand-in
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...Hunt’s absence, last year’s Commencement excercises were organized by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), and University Provost Steven E. Hyman served as a stand-in master of ceremonies...
Moreover, the absence of a divisional dean—which comes at a time when the future role of life sciences at Harvard is in flux—has placed the burden of making long-term decisions on a committee created as a temporary stand-in for the future dean...
...enlightened cab drivers alike. But not always of Iranian censors. Abolfazl Jalili, director of the wonderful coming-of-age drama Abjad, was told he could not leave his country to attend the Venice and Toronto festivals. Set in the late 1970s, Abjad is about a teenager (clearly a stand-in for the director) torn between artistic ambitions and the pressures of his parents and the new Islamic Iran. Since art is personified by a pretty neighbor, his decision isn't hard to predict. But it is cogently dramatized, with an attention to detail that makes it one of the finest...
...learned it at his father's knee; Cheney came to it much later and as a student. Worse, he was a student of political science, a man trained as a staff member, crunching the numbers, writing about highway reforms. As heir to a political dynasty, Bush was always a stand-in for the big guy himself, not an aide but a doppelganger. And although it was not until 1994 that he began to run seriously, he had been in the motorcade since college. Cheney was born to serve but not to run for the top job, though it took...
...something that everyone interested in theater should at least understand, and the only way to do that is by trying it out.” In his monologue The Watermelon Project, which he performed last Thursday and Friday nights, his only props were a hammer, a watermelon and a stand-in picture of an ex-girlfriend that developed from his “desire to bend the rules of ‘theater’—to actually freak the audience out for a second in a way a straight play cannot do.” Emily...