Word: abruptly
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...issues concern everyone. The prevalence of divorce has imposed a less prescriptive definition of family. AIDS has settled into the landscape as yet another way to lose a loved one too soon. As the show tenderly depicts, life's joys tend to be small and quiet and its sorrows abrupt and huge, whatever your religion, ethnicity or sexual preference. This is above all a musical about the most universal concept, home, and the buffeting ways the world intrudes upon...
...company's artistic director, Sharon Ott, and a highly adaptable village-square setting by Kate Edmunds. The production is so good that even a predictable climax -- the villain's armed intrusion at the wedding of a shepherd he despises and a maiden he means to rape -- achieves the abrupt power of surprise. Among a solid ensemble cast, Jack Heller is a wonderfully hissable overlord, full of chill arrogance and hot rage, and Domenique Lozano and Stephen Burks are the most affecting of his victims. The chief asset, however, is the play itself, which is both a singular masterwork...
Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell--who is currently taking an unpaid leave of absence to protest lack of faculty diversity--said that the abrupt and uncourteous manner in which Watson was dismissed may have revealed an attempt to punish Watson for his controversial views...
Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell--who is currently taking an unpaid leave of absence to protest lack of faculty diversity--said that the abrupt and uncourteous manner in which Watson was dismissed may have revealed an attempt to punish Watson for his controversial views...
...problems for the domestic novel, even one as smartly written as Natural Selection. People living together ensure tension and expectation. Apart, there is a sense of exhaustion. Barthelme gets the conjugal entropy just right, but, by definition, he is at a dead end. His resolution is to spring an abrupt and wrenching ending better suited for a short story than a novel. It involves a car chase and could use a warning: sudden stops can cause whiplash...