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While Valmont seduces everything in a skirt, the Marquise is an equally manipulative woman. She claims that she was "born to dominate [the male] sex and avenge my own." She is a mistress of detachment. She creates a stark barrier between her true feelings and her appearance. These deceptive underpinnings fuel the nervous tension that culminates in an eventful climax, in which the protagonists learn that "vanity and happiness are incompatible...
...flexible silver stalactites with flat circles attached at the ends. These "decorations" turned out to be an innovative--if uncomfortable--form of audience seating. During the course of the play, cast members tended to brush past the swings, sending the audience spiralling around. The production definitely broke down the barrier which separates audience from performer, as this reviewer discovered when a partially dressed actor did his best to masturbate against...
...Bureaucracy, which was once an aid ... is now a barrier," said James Pinkerton, senior adviser to the Bush and Quayle 1992 presidential campaign...
...child's smile, lighting up as he enters Euro Disneyland, knows no language barrier. Nor does the thrill of fear scooting up a young French spine at the sight of Monstro the Whale at Les Voyages de Pinocchio or the dragon in Le Chateau de la Belle au Bois Dormant (Sleeping Beauty's Castle). When a kid alights from the Big Thunder Mountain railway and exclaims "Genial!" everyone nearby can tell he means "Awesome!" You need no French diploma to read a gamine's serene exhaustion when she staggers out on penguin legs at the end of a 12-hour...
Ever since Living Colour broke through the color barrier four years ago and went on to pick up two consecutive Grammys for Best Hard Rock Performnce, growing numbers of young African-American musicians have begun jamming to a rock beat. Says Living Colour lead guitarist Vernon Reid: "Rock 'n' roll is black music, and we are its heirs...