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...best the actors achieve is a consistent and inoffensive muddle of British and American English. On balance, the present-day scenes are slightly better than those set in the past. Robertson and Arnold are excellent in their exchanges with each other; they recognize the extreme dryness of Stoppard's wit and construct their characters accordingly. Geordie Broadwater '04 is also outstanding in these scenes as Valentine Coverly, a member of the family that still lives at Sidley Park. Broadwater is weighted with many of the monologues in which Stoppard attempts to give five-minute explanations of chaos theory and quantum...

Author: By Joseph Hearn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Romantic Theory: Love and Literature Combine in Stoppard's 'Arcadia' | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

...concert reading held at Zero Church Street to benefit the American Repertory Theater's Institute for Advanced Theater Training Scholarship Fund, Bloom read selections from Shakespeare's "Henry IV" and "Henry V" with characteristic wit and worldliness...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bloom, the Bard, Acts Out Falstaff | 10/31/2000 | See Source »

Those who knew him remember him as a man of sophistication and wit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Noted English Professor, Dramatist, Dies at 81 | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...underground films, much heard about but not often seen, that turn out to have some wit and brains. For No. 4 (Bottoms), made in 1966, Ono invited friends to drop their pants and walk in place while she filmed the piston motions of their bare behinds. On the soundtrack you hear their nervous chatter as the rear ends--plump or scrawny, smooth or furry--rise and dip and bunch up on-screen. The point that we're all human has been made before, but not usually with tongue so literally in cheek. Four years later, she made Fly, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Her Own Image | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

After telling his story, May opened the floor up for questions and comments from the audience. His answers were peppered with dry wit...

Author: By Candice C. Cho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Discharged Lt. Denounces Army Policy | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

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