Word: wondered
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...Ever wonder why so many students get up at 5 a.m. only to throw themselves at the mercy of the cold, polluted Charles River? The mysterious allure of rowing is the subject of Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing, a new book by Craig Lambert '69. However, a fully satisfactory answer to this question is not to be found in this book. Lambert sets out to make the ordinary extraordinary and winds up doing so in an ordinary way. The book is an autobiographical account of his rowing career, which he extends into life lessons...
...rowed at elite levels--these arefacts that he freely discusses in the book. Hedoes his best to subsidize this deficit ofexperience by recounting anecdotes about rowersand coaches at various levels. While Lambertsummarizes other rowers' stories effectively, theconclusions he draws are so all-encompassing thatthe reader begins to wonder how many people he cangenuinely speak...
...give a startling and witty interpretation of Durang's wacky portrait of love, marriage and family. Before the actors enter, set designer Molly Hughes' interesting set foreshadows the wacky perspectives that are to come. A traditional, colonial style room resides on a stage that slants forward severely (making one wonder how the actors manage to avoid tumbling straight into the audience) with walls that slant together toward a distant focal point. It gives the impression that we are always looking at a photograph with skewed proportions, and illuminates very severely the sad fact that we are not watching picture-perfect...
...wonder Matt screams towards the end of the play, "I can't make sense of these things anymore!" Caught in a constant mess of conflict and hypocrisy, nobody in this play ever really makes any understandable sense to each other or even to the audience. The folks at the A.R.T. wisely choose to leave the enigmas and misunderstandings in the play wide open to interpretation, presenting the characters as they are--faulty, hypocritical and always amusing. In the end, what makes the most sense about The Marriage of Bette and Boo, what makes the play so intensely human and what...
...Book of Revelations. Entire careers germinate and blossom from cliche rhymes, jacked beats and videos with big breasts spread across massive mansions; and every so often rapping prophets warn us about the Apocalypse behind the corner of the next edition of Rap City. Against this backdrop, lyrical nerds wonder aloud, who will save...