Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play is full of comic character types, allowing the cast to show considerable talent and style. Jenny Davidson really rings the audience's bell, snorting her way through the production as the hobbling, grunting Luxurioso. In her monologue climbing the stairs at the end of scene 13, she transcends mere stereotype to take command of the whole theatre: the audience is rapt...
Look for those lingering bell bottom styles. Black socks with pre-Air Jordan running shoes is still a popular ensemble...
...pardons than by Bush's cavalier dismissal of the defendants' actual or alleged crimes as mere "policy differences." Last week the President clarified his position. "Nobody," he said, "is above the law." In a signal that he took Walsh's warning seriously, Bush retained former Attorney General Griffin Bell to represent...
That starkness seems to call to him like a bell in a forest clearing. "I longed for something very, very spare," he says of his favorite book, Far Tortuga, and he notes with pride that there's only one simile in all its 408 pages. "Simply putting down the thing itself was so astonishing," he says. "I often think of the antennae on a cockroach coming out from under a ship's galley, and the light catching these two extraordinary, delicate mechanisms -- that light, and those things, to me is the echo of eons of evolution. What do you need...
...nonfiction, in fact, his principal role has been that of a warning bell and an elegist, trying to rescue traditional values and forgotten instincts from the ravages of progress. ("Modern time, mon, modern time," runs the knelling refrain of Far Tortuga.) "The world is losing its grit and taste," he says with feeling. "The flavor of life is going." And he rises to highest eloquence when talking of the way ever brighter urban lights have caused a "loss of the night" -- the fading of the stars he knew as a boy and of the dark waters on Long Island Sound...