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...real stars of the evening are Andrew Barth, as Iago and Romeo, and Stephanie Smith as Mercutio and Desdemona. It is tempting to imagine them as Viola and Malvolio or Beatrice and Benedick in some future HRDC production. Barth is wonderfully vicious as Iago, and his Romeo, while predictably over-the-top, retains more grace and wit than the buffoonish comedy demands Smith's comic zeal and exuberance make her the focus of every scene she is in; her Mercutio is delightful, and her Desdemona is as perfect a performance of that sadly banal role as could be imagined...
...first the Black Panthers dazzle the Black community with their fearlessness in the face of white authority. Drawing on a solid knowledge of California law and legally armed with imposing firearms, Huey Newton in particular takes vicious pleasure in spitting, "Pigs!" into the faces of befuddled policemen...
...word segregation conjures up images of the vicious injustice of the South's Jim Crow laws, with its separate, superior facilities and opportunities for whites. Non-violent demonstrators, freedom riders and students who participated in sit-ins in the struggle for desegregation were spat upon, beaten, maimed and sometimes killed. The term segregation carrier as disgusting legacy of oppression. Using it to describe the actions of minorities today is a nasty reactionary play on words, like calling defenders of civil rights and affirmative action reverse racists...
...Katz's argument rings hollow. Who is to say that a more organized, better funded and technologically more advanced Serb army wouldn't systematically destroy the Muslim population of Bosnia? Recently discovered documents have shown the evil intent of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic as he ordered the vicious murder of peaceful Bosnian Muslims. Are the Serbs just Nazis whose military teeth are not quite has sharp...
...kind of a vicious cycle," she explains. "I'm sure if you spoke to HRDC members that they would say that not that many Blacks come out for common casting so they don't offer a lot of roles, but because there arent' that many roles offered, people don't come...