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Nonetheless, it comes as a relief when, in the play's second half, the performance style swiftly sobers up, allowing us to reconnect with the story's plot line and characters--elements that have been largely drowned out during the first half in the loud static of eighth-grade toilet humor. But the bizarrely goofy comedy of the production becomes all the more surreal in contrast with the newly straight-faced drama, providing some startlingly memorable moments: Kirk Hanson '99 as the apothecary Cerimon, hamming it up as he restores the drowned queen Thaisa to life ("She's ALIIIIVE!"); Michael...
This page, too, lacks the glitz and glamour provided by Java scripting. The page is static, which means that people probably won't keep coming back if they don't have to. Dynamic and changing sites keep a browser's attention and patronage. www.fas.harvard.edu/~alississ...
This is okay, since I'm living in the fashion time-warp better known as college. But while I sit impervious to style in my saddle oxfords and argyle socks, I am struck by a sinking suspicion that leads me to squirm over the static nature of my wardrobe. For unlike those of us born in the Carter administration, when the high school kids of the new millennium begin to strut their stuff, they won't be doing so in L.L. Bean flannel...
Even where multiple stripes are employed they tend to stick near enough to each other so that they can be read as a single stripe. Thus, striped clothing creates a minimalist dichotomy that suggests action and movement. Such a statement is a sharp departure from the complicated unity and static nature of plaid...
...Internet has brought a world of information to individuals in their homes and offices, but personal and domestic robots, even simple ones, never caught on. And almost no one uses home automation technology to control their appliances and lights, even though the underlying X-10 technology has been static for almost twenty years...