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...shock wore off, and the adrenaline drained away, the strain of being patient and resourceful and strong has begun to wear on people. "All the public mourning seemed to delay the private mourning," said Robert Trent, a professor at nearby Radford College, who sang with his Virginia Tech friends in the church choir Sunday. "People put on a brave face, and it's reasonable that they would react that way. But now it hits them, and they should be allowed to have these private moments...
...story depicts an American novelist, Clifford Bradshaw (Zachary B.S. Sniderman ’09), and his doomed love affair with Sally Bowles, one of the main dancers at Berlin’s Kit Kat Klub, where the party never stops and the women wear as little as possible. Most of the first act takes place here, but a concurrent subplot involves an equally doomed love affair between Bradshaw’s landlord Fräulein Schneider, played by Carolyn A. McCandlish ’07, and her tenant, Herr Schultz (Quincy Ellis...
...Cabaret” had the potential to be great, but it never quite got off the ground. There were moments, such as at the end of the first act, when it seemed like it would—but that potential dissipated as the show wore on. And wear on it did, causing some of the audience to skip the second act altogether. Despite the many merits of the show and its actors, after the emotion abated from the touching last scene, I was left with nothing but the empty feeling of mediocrity by which to remember...
...characters exchange typed-out sexual innuendoes. There is also nothing more offensive than the motivation du jour of partially repressed horrific memories - especially in pictures that glow with glamour-trash aspirations. For that aspect of the story, Rowena gets a job in Hill's agency, which permits her to wear swell clothes, go to fancy parties and engage in flirtatious dialogue about "Hemingway Daiquiris" with Hill, who, his priapic ways aside, seems to be a nice enough...
When people find out I’m a sex counselor, they’ve usually got a lot of questions. How can I go on birth control without my parents knowing? Am I still a virgin if I wear tampons? And my favorite: Can latex gloves double as latex condoms, like, if I use one of the finger holes? No! (Though it might be a funny way to wave at someone...