Word: wising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marks," Lucia Brawley '00, elegiac and wise, escapes into the memories written in her tattoos. Religion, too, takes several turns under the lens of the play--the first in "Twirler," where Yayoi Shionoiri '00 embodies a melodramatic young baton twirler obsessed--really obsessed--with twirling and the religious divination she gets out of it. Erin Billings '99 becomes a Southern belle-turned-snake-handler in "Handler," and Shionoiri reappears in Dragons as a woman giving birth to dragons (yes, on stage) while appealing to the Catholic saints and religious conventions that she seems to disdain...
Rojas is more than up to the task vocally--his voice is full-bodied and intense, if at times in a middle vocal range that makes it hard to project--but acting-wise, Rojas has fallen into the the trap of the magnificent singer who is plauged with an inability to act convincingly. He did seem to open up through the course of the opera, but his slightly grotesque nuzzling of the deathbed-ridden Violetta seemed contrived and ingenuine...
...human body turning into stone, wood or acutout, as well as broken fences, severed treesand faulty instruments all symbolize destruction.Yet Bak counters each with the representation ofresurrection and reconstruction through plantedroots: wise elders, stars, doves and triumphantpawns. He speaks to us about what the heart canwithstand, learn and still survive, "I speak aboutdestruction and reconstruction--the amazing humanspirit...
...wasn't waiting for some other House to proveif this was a wise decision or not," he said. "Theprocess just took that long...
This is Watergate manque. Starr is not Archibald Cox. Henry Hyde has Sam Ervin's white hair but not his folksy touch. There are no bipartisan Wise Men like Howard Baker, nowhere the drama of a fresh question revealing a secret White House taping system. Back then a hearing was a hearing, not a televised re-enactment of previous document dumps. And back then Sam Dash was Sam Dash. This time around he's been Starr's ethics enabler, overlooking obvious conflicts until his client went so far as to testify, against his advice, as an "aggressive advocate" for impeachment...