Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work need to be discovered gradually, like the bruised beauty of a sunset. These actors do get the shouting scenes right; their abrupt, strangulated outbursts are appropriate to people who have been bred to optimism and implosion, not to the articulation of rage. And Van Dyck finds wit and poignancy in her several roles. She often has the taut stillness of a woman listening for catastrophe. But the rest of the cast often pushes too hard. Any overacting brutalizes Cheever's prose; mugging is the artistic equivalent of a mugging...
...characters as well. We see sexual harassment from both sides; we experience the exultation of a black man who is promoted and the bitterness of the white man who is replaced; and we are given both views as two women, one black, one white, warily become friends. Writing with wit and grace, Campbell shows how all our stories -- white, black, male, female -- ultimately intertwine...
Instead of addressing race as a necessary component in understanding the working dynamics within The Crimson, the editorial chairs proceeded to flex their intellectual wit by poking fun at Perspective's attempts to discuss race. Instead of writing about how and why race should be discussed or not discussed, they crafted phrases like "the pot calling the kettle 'of color'" (a response to my use of "women of color...
Then there was Josh "I'm writing my senior thesis on the council" Liston '95, the flamboyant, self-appointed wit from Eliot House, whose name has been synonymous with council scandals. Last year, the council censured Liston for not fulfilling his duties as vice president--though that censure was later set aside on a technicality. Liston utterly botched a campus-wide referendum he was responsible for administering. And this fall, just before elections, he switched from ardently supporting a $10 term bill hike last year, to opposing...
...loud Uncle Mort whom you only see on Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July. He knows everything, he knows he's funny and successful, and he tells you all about it. Until he's had a few drinks in him, he will insist on displaying his wit, connections, and catalogue of anecdotes, while you wonder how long the holiday will take. Ultimately, you begin sneaking illicit shots to make him tolerable. Too bad they don't warn the Gen-X-ers of this in the program beforehand...