Word: boredly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ultimately responsible for making sure that the show was as comprehensible and convincing as possible. But the lead performance from McCaffrey, whose Jake could have used some toughening did not help; McCaffrey diluted the role with too much tenderness, and in the process he turned Jake into a petulant bore. The play’s three elderly characters were likewise lacking in interpretation; each of the three actors had occasional moments of comic vigor, yet they did not have the presence required to make their irrational characters compelling...
...through their high school English classes, where they learned that compelling stories always follow arcs from beginning to climax to denouement. Being good pupils, they constructed a now-familiar narrative around the candidate, first building him into an outsider-turned-frontrunner and then relentlessly tearing him down. The storyline bore little relationship to the facts of the campaign, but after reporters and editors decided that the peak had been reached—roughly ten months before the general election, and before a single vote had been cast in a primary or caucus—they imposed on their audience...
...looked so familiar. but the two passersby who stopped a bald man last December on the steps of Rockefeller Center in New York City weren't sure who he was. That imperial nose, the batwing ears, those bore- into-your-soul eyes ... "You're a movie star, right?" they asked. Ben Kingsley smiled and quietly replied, "Yes." Their confusion didn't surprise Vadim Perelman, who directed Kingsley's new film, House of Sand and Fog, and was with him at the time. Over the past 40 years, the British actor has morphed into many larger-than-life figures - Moses, Hamlet...
Others arrive at rallies already firmly committed to their candidate. One man drove up to a Clark appearance on Saturday morning with New Hampshire vanity license plates which bore the campaign slogan, “WES WING...
This confrontation made him unpopular with some students, but Lurie wears this, like his armband, as a badge of courage. Politically, he wears his heart on his sleeve. Outside of the Science Center last week, Lurie bore his defiant message even more explicitly: “If the Harvard Salient is afraid of him, he must be doing something right...