Word: witnesses
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...program. The piece's vocabulary was quite different than the Beethoven which had come before, with angular themes, surreptitious-sounding pizzicati, and highly percussive tutti throughout. This idiom seemed to bring out a better side of the orchestra, which took the difficult rhythms in stride, found the wit in some of Shostakovich's jazz-inflected themes, and produced an impressive tone in the louder passages. Maybe HRO felt some affinity with the piece, which the composer wrote as a senior project at the age of 18 (and you think you work too hard on your thesis). Or maybe the orchestra...
...could easily be nothing more than a frothy, cynical delight, but there is some very deft social commentary at the heart of Christopher Hampton's play. The new production by director Adriana Abdenur '97, which continues this weekend at Agassiz Theater, captures the play's thematic complexity and scathing wit...
...solemnity, EZ Streets somehow manages to avoid melodrama. Indeed, Haggis brings a mordant wit to his new show. He has conceived head gangster Jimmy Murtha (Joe Pantoliano) as the kind of guy who mercilessly blows people up, then goes to confession and can't quite deliver the goods. "I know what you do. God knows what you do," the priest chastises. "You're trying to tell me that the only sin you have to confess is that you took the Lord's name in vain?" Murtha's response: "I'm giving you what I can." Then he negotiates his penance...
Ackerman is known for his searing wit, plump figure and distinctive residence (he lives on a houseboat on the Potomac named Unsinkable II--after Unsinkable I, which sank). He sits on the International Relations Committee, and pays a great deal of attention to foreign policy. This summer, the otherwise liberal Ackerman introduced a controversial bipartisan bill to require states to test newborns for HIV if their mothers had not been tested while pregnant...
...defending his seat against Bill Choby, the 11-term Murtha could revive an old campaign slogan for this race: "John P. Murtha...the P is for Power." A ranking member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security, he has a reputation for using influence to benefit his district; to wit, when the 12th suffered major flood damage this year, Murtha helped four counties get federal disaster-relief assistance...