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...supporting roles fare better. Williams's Abby, though mainly an ornament, is one tough, no-nonsense woman. She's pragmatic ("As far as you know, you have good semen? I'm only asking because I want you to get me pregnant."), resourceful (she nurses the wounded Postman through a bitter winter with nothing but leaves, water and a couple of bowls of horse soup), and a much better fighter than the Postman (she's deadly accurate with an AR-15). To the story's detriment, her character fades into obscurity in the film's latter half. Larenz Tate does...
Early in Julie Johnson, the title character's best friend declares "I feel like I don't even know you!" An outburst both of bitter sarcasm and exposed honesty, this declaration epitomizes the humanizing impetus of the play: the need for understanding and the overwhelming alienation of suburban life. In the last full production offered by the HRDC this semester, a small company presented a probing exploration of a middle-class home-maker in her quest to regain control over her own life and come to grips with herself...
...your hopes, plans and confidence are gone. You become bitter at the crowd of vets laughing, at your old coaches and at yourself. You look to your left and look to your right, and you see no one, nothing. So you look up. The sky is dark, the winds are accelerating and it's getting cold. You are tired and barely jogging. You stumble over your own mediocrity and join the suckers on the sideline. You stop running altogether. You have just arrived at Harvard College...
...resignation was prompted both by a budget that he believed failed Israel?s poor and by the stagnation in Israeli peace efforts ? the foreign minister had made no effort to conceal his frustration at Netanyahu?s disregard for Israel?s commitments in the peace process. Beyer says a bitter personal rivalry between the two men also prompted Levy to choose a critical moment to pull the plug on Netanyahu?s government...
...aids patients write to thank him for the inspiration they get from A New Life, a song from Jekyll & Hyde. And as for those critics? Friends send him copies of early bad reviews of Puccini and Verdi operas to make him feel better. "There's a tendency to get bitter and cynical, but I'm not going to do that," he says. "I've got too much...