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...dress straight out of "Prom Night Horror." When they have to, however, both can instantly become powerful leaders on the brink of destruction. LeBow's Tiresias sends chills through the audience with his dark fore-shadowings to the giggling Maenads. Likewise, the perpetually-talented Epstein manages to make his bitter tirade against Agave ring with the pain of a noble ruler disappointing his people, yet he also lashes out in furious anguish at his childlike daughter for the mess she and her disbelieving son have created...
...into his pithy one-liners. For example, a distant relative is glorified because he, "on his last day, enjoyed beer and victory at cards and held a young woman in his arms." In addition, clever stabs at flaky New-Agers and oversensitive liberal types become dry, overused and almost bitter long before the novel's end. At one point, a ditzy secretary who later claims that John, the narrator, is trying to "power [her] down into a daughter role," comments that "if you're able to open yourself up to [New Age music], it's like a spirit bath." John...
...percent; inflation must be kept below 5 percent; and the current-account deficit must be slashed to within 1 percent of GDP. There's precious little sugar with this medicine ? Seoul must maintain flexible monetary policies and allow temporary hikes in interest rates, says the IMF. A final bitter blow is that foreign investors will be allowed to increase their shareholdings in Korean companies to 50 percent this year ? up from the 26 percent limit currently allowed by the government...
...then, things like fast track trade legislation just don't spark political passions. Moderates read the papers and vote, but too often remain on the sidelines as key debates are taking place. We live in a country of Crossfires, in which public discourse is harshly split. This fall, with bitter, partisan campaign finance investigations and the almost comical obstructionism of numerous presidential appointments, the inepitude of an overly partisan government has become painstakingly clear...
Welcome to Sarajevo is painfully alert to this bitter contradiction. You read it first in Dillane's wary eyes, the weary set of his shoulders, the willed affectlessness of his voice. His Henderson is based on a real British TV journalist named Michael Nicholson, who covered 15 wars in 25 years, and the actor carries the weight of that experience, the need somehow to shift it, most affectingly...