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...crowd's chosen villain was quarterback Brian Buckley. The senior certainly had an off day in his final college contest, but blaming him exclusively would be an egregious oversimplicifcation. Restic couldn't name one thing that hurt his team most, just "circumstances," and his usual response when defending the Multiflex. "We just couldn't execute...
True, Jiang Qing, Mao's widow, makes a convincing villain: she all but destroyed the Peking Opera and the theater by permitting only dull, politically correct works. (Nowadays at theatrical performances, foreigners sometimes find themselves clapping more than the Chinese present; the guide explains that during the Cultural Revolution, when attendance was compulsory but the programs awful, the Chinese withheld applause as a form of retaliation, and are only now beginning to clap again.) Everybody knows that many of the bureaucrats who waged the Cultural Revolution still occupy high places. But the government's propaganda campaign lets writers...
...like a black-caped villain lurking in the shadows, a Yale defender stands ready to disrupt any Harvard offensive thrust. He goes by the menacing name of Keven Czinger, and he plays middle guard for the Elis. A three-year varsity starter, Czinger will play opposite sophomore Harvard center John Francis, a fourth-stringer before injuries felled the Crimson's three top men at the position. Francis has played admirably, but Czinger might prove too tough. The absence of Yale's leading tackler, linebacker Jeff Roher, who broke an ankle two7CrimsonNevin I. ShalitHarvard captain and defensive tackle CHUCK DURST...
...actors frequently shout to be heard, which serves to exaggerate the difference in age between them and their roles. Ralph Zito turns the twisted, self-centered Serebriakov into a buoyant, strapping cartoon villain. When Vanya charges him with ruining his life in their third-act confrontation, Zito rushes across the platforms to the other side of the house, breathing heavily and staring over the audience like a character in melodrama who can't face the awful truth. But the horror of Serebriakov is that he is too full of himself to begin to understand what Vanya is talking about. Instead...
Today--trapped in megalopolis--the hyperactive child is a villain and given damaging medication. Henry Ratliff...