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Technically, the lighting was masterful. The play begins in the dark during the robbery; as the viewer's eyes adjust, the scene becomes clearer and the viewer can make out the furtive burglar by faint light from a window. While stuck in pitch black, the viewer empathizes with Ata and her fear: however, this is the only time in the play one feels any empathy for any of the characters. However, the dramatic silences were violated by the annoying and incessant buzzing hum of the lights...

Author: By Mary-beth A. Muchmore, | Title: 'Criminal Hearts' Weighed Down by Implausible Plot | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...playing a teen idol, and it totally worked." Then Tim Burton gave him the opportunity to bury it for good with Edward Scissorhands, in which Depp played an abandoned monster with cutlery where his digits should have been, trying with sweetly contained but (considering his weaponry) dangerous eagerness to adjust to suburban normalcy. Everyone from moony adolescents to case-hardened movie critics could read the silent, yet somehow unsentimental, plea for succor emanating from his deep obsidian eyes, wonderfully set off by whiteface makeup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEPP CHARGE | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...Cabot House, many students are similarly pleased with UNICCO's service, although, like Quincy residents, they said the newcomers will need some time to adjust to their new working environment...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Contractors Please Students | 2/28/1997 | See Source »

...this magazine's owner, was a target in 1992 and 1993), but people are making decisions based on the list. Kayla Gillan, general counsel at CalPERS, says Reebok was chosen last summer--before its recent stock surge. C'mon, there's no excuse for not having the flexibility to adjust this list to the market. Money managers do that every day, don't they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUT OF STEP ON REEBOK | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...word you never hear about Albright is imagination. Yet those who complain she lacks a grand strategy to subdue a messy post-cold war world may be missing the point about Albright. "I really do think that strategic thinkers who never adjust their strategy or their thinking are not useful," she says. "I've tried to have my conceptual ideas, but it doesn't do any good to have those if you can't make them happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BLUNT BUT FLEXIBLE | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

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