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Boston-Hanscom Field (Bedford, Mass.) to Buffalo-Niagra Falls...
...this position, rather than passing judgment on characters as we might in everyday life, we often find ourselves more accepting of other people's faults. Characters whom we might find repulsive were we to meet them on the street--Chekov's Trigorin or Mamet's Don in American Buffalo--take on a surprising pathos in the theater. Much of this is undoubtedly due to the skill of the playwrights, actors and directors involved, but I would argue that just as much of it is due to the fact that the audience can't be seen by the actors...
There's nothing wrong with being cut from the herd," frazzled mother Lois tells her son Malcolm, who has just tested--to his chagrin--as a genius. "It makes you the one buffalo that isn't there when the Indians run the rest of them off the cliff." That, or it makes you the easiest target for sharpshooters; whoever coined the term "gifted" clearly never received a wedgie for being a brain. As the oddball sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (Fox, Sundays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.) shows, being pegged as special is more a "gift" in a Let's Make...
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