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...productions of the show, which continues to run off-Broadway, you will not be disappointed with the faithful Kirkland version. But if your expectations for theater are higher than what Jones and Schmidt set out to do, you would be wise to spend the evening with friends, reading Ibsen aloud...
...gave Rosemary cancer of the breast, said Alison to herself, aloud, to see how the words sounded. They did not sound very foolish...
Then he took up the subject of the Palestinians, whom he usually referred to as "refugees," and wondered aloud why the Arabs, with all their money, "can't take care of their own." He said the idea of a Palestinian state on the West Bank was nothing less than "sowing the seeds for future destruction. We will not accept the P.L.O. We will not talk to them. We will not negotiate with them. We will not accept the American position that we talk to them. And we will go to Geneva only with the understanding that the U.S.Soviet joint...
...months, journalists had wondered aloud whether Paul would mark his birthday by resigning the office that he has on occasion observed to be more a burden than a joy. He fueled such discussion years ago by visiting the tomb of the reluctant Pope Celestine V, who abdicated the papacy.* Moreover, Paul revealed his attitudes on the aging when he de - creed that cardinals who reach age 80 are too old to vote on his successor - and that bishops who lead dioceses must submit resignations...
...GRANDMOTHER used to read Ring Lardner's short stories aloud at the dinner table to my mother and her brother when they were little. She received, I am told, the kind of response most children give their parents when they try to share something they think is funny at the dinner table--mostly a polite laugh or two, but my grandmother loved Lardner, and somehow the dinner table readings remain implanted fondly in her daughter's memory...