Word: wildly
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...Titus Andronicus is a particularly sympathetic character, and the actors don't make the mistake of trying to win sympathy. Nor do they strive for the kind of perfect diction and modulation one normally expects from performance of Shakespeare. Instead, they play up the wild distortions, creating a melange of half-bestial, half-diabolical passions. As the two unredeemable villains of the play, Demitrius and Chiron, Kelly Keough and Chuck O'Toole '97 are costumed and made up to resemble a cross between macabre spirits and S&M partygoers--an image reinforced, perhaps overdone, by slinking movements and exaggerated gestures...
Last summer, the brothers applied for a wild card for doubles...
...team and may have made a terrible prediction. Last week the nouveau riche Marlins took the National League championship from the vaunted Atlanta Braves to become, at only five years of age, the freshest team ever to make the World Series. Of course, they are also the first wild-card team ever to qualify for the Fall Classic, which makes them the pariahs of purists. And they benefited from home-plate umpire Eric Gregg's unusual strike zone in Game 5, when he gave new meaning to the baseball terms expansion and realignment. And they literally tried...
...them onto a train and ordered the tracks cleared all the way to Idaho. Such episodes of swashbuckling adventure bring out the crack reporter in Lukas as well as the showman, suggesting that what he relished about his story wasn't its intricate political subtleties but its moments of Wild West theatricality...
...spotlight beams which converged on the stage and performers from towers set up all around the stadium. Mist from fog generators hung over the stage, making the intricate network of crossing beams seem almost tangible, like a gigantic multi-colored jungle gym which danced and contorted itself with wild abandon. Above, an airplance flew in circles, tethered to the stadium by a bright rope of white light. Throughout the stadium, the twinkle of ushers' flashlights reminded one of the vastness of the venue, the vastness of the event, and the sense of all-encompassing spectacle was so great that even...