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Mary P. Daniels '02, whose name has been changed at her request, has little medical training, but last spring, she had to determine if a friend of hers was going to live through the night...
...bout them Red Sox?" One imagines old men sitting on dusty porches in Texas, commenting for the 63rd consecutive day that they seem to be in the midst of a dry spell. Once, on a tour bus in France, I sat next to a very old Japanese man whose English was entirely limited to the discussion of pleasant weather. Periodically he pointed to the sky and said, earnestly, "It's fine." He was a nice man, but I have to admit it was an extremely boring conversation...
...Without a doubt, though, hats go off to the two performers who save the show. The first, surprisingly, is Sir Evelyn Oakleigh. Played by Rodrigo Chazaro '99, Evelyn is the stuffy Englishman whose heart is turned by Reno Sweeny, the nightclub queen herself. And Chazaro plays his character like no other--his cutesy navet, his unfailingly proper demeanor, even his specific vocal inflections are flawless. The second, and even more outstanding, is Reno Sweeny herself, played by Vered Metson '01. Metson's performance is utterly captivating--in this sense, she literally saves the show. Imperfections in other portions...
...Hitchcock approaches his self-declared age limit for rock and roll, he beginning to turn his creative energies to another medium: he is writing a novel. The plot? "It's about somebody whose past changes, so by the time the book ends the beginning couldn't have happened," he says. Odd? Certainly. As brilliant as his music? One can only hope...
...Women's Studies last month co-sponsored a Dar Williams concert as part of its 15th anniversary celebration. Like any female folkie, Williams strums with her hands and sings with her voice, but shouts with her heart. The result is an avalanche of feeling and experience and pointfulness whose depth reflects perfectly the spirit of MIT's program, women's studies programs in general, and every woman's particular search for a point...