Word: act
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McGee's directorial skills sparkle in the play's first act, in which he successfully exhibits the complex issues and themes presented in Phelan's work. Great challenges are posed, clearly relating to an audience one woman's intricate mourning of her husband's death. She becomes obsessed with the images of death in Holbein's painting "The Ambassadors" and the Rodney King incident as they relate to her loss. Such challenges are met by McGee's decision to divide the woman's voice into three distinct roles: the grieving wife, the part of her consciousness obsessed with the painting...
...play. Without such stellar performances it is likely that scenes or elements of confusion would lose the attention of viewers, thus making the play ineffective. This is especially applicable to Augustine, who entrances the audience with his sincere display of emotion in an extremely complex and confusing second act. As the main voice of the widow in the first act, Kate Agresta's ability to dazzle audiences, even when delivering somber testimony, becomes apparent. Her impeccable delivery is a triumph in itself, but the emotion with which she does so is powerful. All three actors markedly encompass...
Rational choice, which grew out of the study of economics in the 1970s, works under the assumption that people only act in ways that benefit them. Rational choice scholars collect large pools of data and attempt to write mathematical models that will predict how government works...
...know, but I can imagine it being at bottom an act of irony, a means of imparting some of the sophistication irony presumes to an otherwise worthless pop culture artifact. This act, this connoisseuring of camp, is not a rejection of more serious things but the elevation of a paltry thing to a thing of significance in a world that often seems short of them. The poster, the fear-masking jeers of the "Love Story" audience, the gas station name patches on Park Avenue kids, all these and a thousand other acts of irony are not a craven turning away...
...fills out a form to play an interactive game or join a chat room, his or her Internet habits can be captured, analyzed and sold ? and parents could find their offspring bombarded with all sorts of marketing malarkey. The new restrictions, which delineate the Children?s Online Privacy Protection Act passed last year in Congress, may make parents feel a bit more in control of their children?s time online. In fact, the restrictions are bound to make just about everybody ? except marketers and advertisers ? feel good, says TIME Digital editor Lev Grossman. "Everyone?s in favor of protecting children...