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It’s a mark of the strength of the team behind Roberto Zucco that they aren’t sunk by its script, which is one of those laughably pretentious philosophical treatises that stink up the Ex with fair regularity. Briton Martin Crimp’s affected translation (from Bernard-Marie Koltès’ French original) gives Roberto Zucco much of its campiness, but the play’s plot is no treat, either. Its title character (John Dewis) is a multiple murderer who enjoys making uninformative speeches about the place and nature...
During his freshman year, sophomores targeted Abbot’s room to steal bed slats and dump off watermelon rinds. According to the diaries, the rogues stuffed a “quill filled with powder” into Abbot’s keyhole to stink up the room. Sometimes, they just dumped buckets of water on the old chap...
...time for free, and the film gets exposure for free--mutual and circular exploitation, so to speak. Now then, if we were to go the lowest of the low road and plaster my face on a bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line our pockets, it would stink. But to go the low road to get to the high road--for charity, for the common good--now there's an idea worth the hustle, a reciprocal trade agreement." Then he and the hermit crab went in for a swim...
...white stallion and wooing her mother with the line "Hey baby, nice bum." It was a good story?but total fiction. And Namu has shocked audiences at book readings in the U.S. by stating that she would never take a Mosuo man because she can't stand "their stink." Such comments are familiar to many Chinese and to me?I've known Namu for a decade and have observed as she mingles fantasy and fact based on what she thinks will sell. "My challenge," Mathieu acknowledges, was to "make her story accessible to a Western audience" without whitewashing Namu...
...victory for Boston would be even more devastating to its baseball culture than a win for Chicago. At least for the Cubs, this year is an anomaly, and thus something to cherish. Usually, the Cubs stink. So, a World Series drive should be celebrated...