Word: beards
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When I think of Edward Albee, I think of the psychological explorations of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. The first act of his last play, The Seascape, fulfills that generalization remarkably well. It opens with a married couple bickering. Charlie (John Beard) and Nancy (Nicole Charbonneau), just like the pair in Woolf--they are past middle age and frustrated by the stagnancy into which their lives have fallen. Nancy is devastated by it and Charlie is burdened by her insistence that he empathize with her misery. Soon another couple arrives whose own personal issues mirror and illuminate those...
...Dussander, who, it turns out, killed his wife and his two daughters. The man hurries away and falls to his knees crying. The near-silent dignity of the man's role is undercut by the way the movie seems to want to characterize him. While Dussander, with a grey beard and wire-rimmed glasses, is a picture a masculine restraint, this man, with bald head and flabby features, sobbing hopelessly at the horror of it all, is portrayed as a mere child by comparison. It is this sort of portrayal that makes Apt Pupil a movie unforgettable and unforgivable...
...studio production--an innovative combination of his two previous albums, Better Living Through Chemistry and Live from the Floor of the Boutique. The result is an eclectic variety of imaginative samples and sensational beats that can be cranked on eighteen-inch speakers at a dance party or softly beard on headphones. Either way, Fatboy Slim's third album is a powerful and impressive success on many levels of appreciation...
...believe he harassed [former White House volunteer Kathleen Willey]? Of course not. I mean in the true sense of the world, the word, of course not. Do I think he kissed her? Yeah ... It's hard to fake beard burn...
...with amputation, an adulterer with a public flogging and a blasphemer with execution; a man can rid himself of a wife merely by saying "I divorce thee" three times. The more moderate Islamic states apply Shari'a to family and religion but not to legal and state matters. Take beards, for example: in Afghanistan, members of the ruling Taliban militia will grasp a passerby's facial hair in their fist. If the beard is shorter than the Taliban's fist, the offender is publicly whipped. But next door in Iran, Shi'ite Muslims believe that according to the Koran...