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Another especially memorable performance is that of Fredricks’ Cat Gotchatongue. Bedecked in glittering, flowing black and scarlet robes and with a face plastered with white makeup, Fredricks’ silent acting is vivid and ridiculously histrionic, perfectly fitting the dramatic silent film music that accompanies his movements...
...Good luck, fella! Shaping the present seems hard enough for the Bush Administration. The abrupt Republican skedaddle away from Bush on the Dubai ports issue was a vivid demonstration of the populist fever rising in America-a make-the-world-go-away attitude that seems likely to spill over from Dubai to the war in Iraq. The best rationale for a continuing U.S. military presence-that the troops are preventing a civil war-began to evaporate with the internecine chaos last week. Indeed, the Dubai controversy may have opened the door for the ultimate apostasy: Bush could rapidly lose Republican...
...powerful illustration of how diversity of thought is not tolerated on the left and especially not within the cocoon that engulfs the Harvard Faculty. Even though I share some of the shame that taints Harvard today, I do grant that at least the Faculty has delivered (albeit unintentionally) one vivid history lesson to Dr. Summers—he now has first-hand knowledge of how Galileo must have felt...
...don’t know if it felt historic, but it was definitely fascinating to watch. I’m an outsider in that community by choice; MMOs are kind of a black hole whose event horizon I dare not cross. It was amazing to see how vivid and lively the interaction was among the residents of Second Life...
...Each Tub On Its Own Bottom’ is a vivid, but limiting, metaphor for decision making at Harvard,” he wrote yesterday in his letter. “We will not escape its limits unless our Schools and Faculties increase their willingness to transcend parochial interests in support of broader university goals...