Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ruiz's men would border on the wrong side of caricature, though, were it not for their more grounded female counterparts. Matthay, as Fiona, is the most outrageous of this trio, though suitably so. She breathes cold-blooded temptress through every line. Kate Agresta '02 as Teresa Phillips and Rabbit as Mary Detweiller provide the backbone of the ensemble. Stressed out and overwhelmed, respectively, they provide glimpses from outside the crazy world that Ayckbourn creates, giving a somewhat more reasoned (or at least reasonable) response to the circus act that their life has become...
After flying into Budapest, they will have to drive at least six hours to Belgrade, though it is likely that the trip will take have been bombed. When they get to the border there is also a chance that Stokes, an American, will be denied entrance to the country...
...only NATO had acted earlier. in 1998 common sense, international law, regional stability and humanitarian considerations dictated that Albania's border with Kosovo be sealed to stem the flow of weapons to the Kosovo Liberation Army. Kosovo would have been spared much of the ensuing violence, and the K.L.A. would have realized that an enhanced autonomy--already conceded in principle by Belgrade--was the most it could hope to achieve. MIKE FINCH Teddington, England...
...enough of whiny, look-at-me-and-what-I've-been-through books. At this point they've become trite and just about unbearable. Which is why Haruki Murakami's South of the Border, West of the Sun is hard to get into--the book commences with what seems to be an attitude of complaint about the unfair hardships of adolescence. The main character, Hajime, is a young man growing up in a "small, quiet town" in Japan. He lives a normal life in a neighborhood where all the houses match and everyone...
South of the Border, West of the Sun can only gain a lukewarm reception from readers who, for the most part, can't identify with anything in the novel (besides, perhaps, the rather trite description of the painful process of adolescence), and who don't seem to have anything to gain by reading it. We are asked to think about happiness and its definition--that seems to be about it. And so we're left with a question, which in many cases is a suitable ending to a good book. Unfortunately in this case, the question...