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...right Surkov reflected Darwinism doesn't explain it. To create all this mysterious existence in only ten thousand million years--the merest blink of an eye. The spontaneous creation of order like the improvisatore's "Cleopatra" No, I can't believe it. It may have happened by impulse, but it's not random...
...unpainted portrait of a war hero-provides the backdrop for the simple set, a battlefield-like void. This screen provides an ingenious mechanism for utilizing Brechtian techniques. Plot summaries are flashed on the screen before each scene slides projected onto the screen change the setting in the blink of an eye. The screen also enables Osius a clever conceit: he presents his play in the context of a Holly wood-style epic. At the end of the play, the audience sees credits on the screen rather than a row of bowing actors. It is unfortunate, however, when a device...
...turned into a neurotic adolescent haunted by unspecified guilts. He could only assuage them with religion. "Dogma," he was to conclude, "does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought." The childless man endlessly tried to recapture a youthful sense of wonder; almost all his works blink out at the world as if they were seeing it for the first time. Yet when he could tear himself away from toy theaters and critiques about "The Ethics of Elfland," he could toss off mature, insightful analyses of Browning and Dickens, marred primarily by their inaccurate quotes...
What a build-up it is, Super Bowls generally are planned three years in advance. Television advertising runs about $375,000 per half-minute and companies don't blink. And, each year, half of America becomes transfixed. At no other time do so many people do precisely the same thing. There is not one comparable money maker: Super Bowl XVII will generate about $100 million for the television network, football league and host city...
...impossible to watch this plot unfold without rooting for the underdog and then remembering that Cruz is as bad as his pursuers, a wildcat crook with delusions of grandeur. Palmer does not blink at Cruz's venomous ethics, but he sinks this character in a landscape of almost unrelieved corruption. He portrays a Miami and environs where the heat is always on: "The sun was a bludgeon hanging over the landscape, poised to smash whatever might attempt to set itself above the level, and nothing larger than a dragonfly dared to venture into its sight; not from lassitude...