Word: actualizing
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...monologues come alive in a way most conventional plays don't. In recounting the horrific, but hardly implausible, series of events that push their friendship to the breaking point, the two cops narrate much of the action; occasionally comment indirectly on each other's recollections; sometimes re-create actual scenes together. Cumulatively, the effect is to drain the sometimes shocking events of any melodrama, to force us to see them with the same resigned, matter-of-fact detachment these characters do. The taut, 90-minute script builds with a tragic inevitability, yet with a coda of redemption that seems neither...
...Harvard Voice was really excited when it realized that the Harvard-Brown football game might mean a visit from "Harry Potter" actress Emma Watson. And so the Voice live blogged, all night long. Well, it didn't really blog about any actual sightings of Watson for quite some time, but rather more about its increasing desire to see her. And finally, the Voice saw the crown jewel of England in person. And took a picture. That was when the Voice got in trouble...
...much as the success of the modern production of beliefs. The modern health-care narrative is so firmly entrenched that it needs no introduction. You are sick; you visit the doctor; he diagnoses the illness; he prescribes the appropriate medication; you get better. Often this process, and not the actual treatment, cures us with its normality. This is why 55 percent of Chicago doctors have prescribed a placebo treatment to their patients...
...There's this new guy, Samuel, whom we met last week, who can control ink, but his actual described power is to control the earth. He wants to find someone to replace his dead brother within his entourage at the carnival. So he goes after Peter Petrelli by pretending to be someone he previously saved and suing him for injuries. They bond. And simultaneously we are introduced to a new character Emma, who is deaf but can apparently see sound in the form of colors. At the end, Samuel collapses a big fancy house into a sinkhole...
...Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and three committees in the House do contain public options. There is also a chance, however slight, that 60 Senators would vote to end a filibuster, even if some of them peeled away when it came time to vote on the actual legislation, which needs only a 51-vote majority to pass...