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...producers emphasize the most throughout Richard III. As there are many deaths, this theme is repeated over and over and over again. It is not as if the actors do a poor job in their performance of the lamentations, but it gets to the point where it seems more tedious and distracting than anything else. On Friday night, several people in the audience even began snickering at the incessant wailing and beating of breasts. Feminism dominates the play; for example Richmond, the vanquisher of Richard, is played by a woman. The final battle between Richmond and Richard's forces include...
...producers emphasize the most throughout Richard III. As there are many deaths, this theme is repeated over and over and over again. It is not as if the actors do a poor job in their performance of the lamentations, but it gets to the point where it seems more tedious and distracting than anything else. On Friday night, several people in the audience even began snickering at the incessant wailing and beating of breasts. Feminism dominates the play; for example Richmond, the vanquisher of Richard, is played by a woman. The final battle between Richmond and Richard's forces include...
...Devlin experienced slam for the first time. Electrified by the suspense and excitement slam brought to poetry performance, he determined to share the experience with greater audiences. Devlin, an English Language and Literature graduate from the University of Michigan, characterizes slam as a force of resistance against the often "tedious and self-indulgent" tradition of academic or published poetry. As he explains, a lot of people don't realize there's an alternative--"There's a lot of prejudice against what poetry is, and slam overturns that...
...there is a full ten seconds of silence before they recover enough to surge forward to meet our heroes with rapturous devotion. Likewise, The Harmonists are not above mushy displays of affection, a fact which director Joseph Vilsmaier impresses upon us by repeatedly showing them joining hands in the tedious "All for one, one for all" pose...
...computer, chances are you were pulled into Microsoft's Office web long ago. Since it controls 75% of the market, you probably use one or more of its applications: Word (for word processing), Outlook (for e-mail), Excel (for spreadsheets), Access (for databases) and Powerpoint (to make tedious, overhead-style slides for interminable meetings). The premium package adds the Web-page builder FrontPage; the image manipulator PhotoDraw; and Publisher, a desktop publishing program. It comes on an intimidating four (!) CD-ROMs, but I needed to install only the first disk to get started; the others hold supplementary material that many...