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After this overture, one was struck by O'Toole's witty and well-timed delivery of a monologue about his boyhood intellectual prowess (calculating the trajectory and position of the airborne football instead of ducking). In a play full of paradox, the second scene, "The Banality of Evil," concludes smugly with gorgeous poetry...
...Cambridge haircuts. She paid the price for her failure to heed the warning signals. She explains, "When I first went to college, the person that normally cut my hair said I should get it cut short [before I left] to avoid the chop-shops." Yeh refused to listen. Tragedy struck when, during her sophomore year, she got her hair cut at a to-remain-nameless institution in the Square. "It only looked right if I held my head at a 20-degree angle," she laughs. "There were two inches off one side and three inches off the other." Yeh didn...
Kalyvas, who entered the game 0-1, was clutch for the Crimson. After walking the first batter he faced to load the bases, he calmly struck out the next batter and induced a fly ball to rightfield to end the inning...
...these days--sometimes come with expectations of finding a "last frontier" inhabited by Crocodile Dundee look-alike. A carefully framed tourist schedule can, up to a point, sustain the illusion, but a few days in Sydney or Melbourne will soon out you right. At first you might be struck by a sense of familiarity--what might be called the McDonald's syndrome--but Australia, however receptive it has been to America influences, is a very different society with a different history...
Then, in the dark early hours of June 4, the government struck back, sending tanks from all directions toward Tiananmen Square and killing hundreds of workers and students and doctors and children, many later found shot in the back. In the unnatural quiet after the massacre, with the six-lane streets eerily empty and a burned-out bus along the road, it fell to the tank man to serve as the last great defender of the peace, an Unknown Soldier in the struggle for human rights...