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...Sensibility" is the word of faint praise that customarily damns women novelists. Yes, they do manage their little nuances so well-those pale violet insights into rather unimportant feelings. Nice sense of humor, too-this side of real bite, though. Still, no man can match them at describing parties-if that's what one really wants in a story. Will women writers, in other words, ever live down one of the world's most overanthologized short stories, Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party! Sensibility incarnate...
Bergreen has chosen the tales he dramatizes well. He has tried to create the whole of Chaucer's vision on stage. Chaucer's world is bawdy and pious. With the bawdy tales Bergreen is totally successful. His Miller's Tale preserves the irreverence and bite of the original by relying on the resources of voice and movement his actors bring to their performance. Dan Chiel as the Miller is superb, transmitting the drunken essence of the Miller's character by use of his voice alone...
...course, means that Dartmouth coach Bob Blackman can't bite into the scoreboard-shaped cake commemorating his 100th victory. Too bad. You can get pretty hungry during a game out there. Yovicsin was to have enjoyed 75 cupcakes for his 75 wins. Here comes Yovicsin...
...baptism record has the right of membership in a parish. I'm not impressed by that any more. People have got to pay to get into this outfit from now on." The reaction of the flock, which was probably more bothered by the coercion than by the $8 bite, was decisive if not generous. Church membership since the change has dropped from 850 families...
...Pioneer Woman (as Pollock took that of the Roaring Boy) and, against all odds, made it work. Wrinkled and spry, fiercely committed to work and solitude, she lives isolated on her New Mexico ranch with two servants and a pair of eleven-year-old chow dogs for company ("They bite very well; I've seen quite a few visitors I didn't want go off with blood sloshing out of their shoes")-a paradigm of the frontier experience which Thoreau tried with less success to live at Walden...