Word: cannot
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...retain their eighth-grade personalities, the romancing and sexual innuendo of the first half of the play is spiced up with impromptu fist fights, Fritos breaks and such literary and urbane interpolations as "Oh, shit," "Get him, dude!" and "You the man"--a brand of humor whose effectiveness, unfortunately, cannot be adequately conveyed in transcription...
...disdain, emerges unexpectedly in the second half as a coldly terrifying Dionyza, the evil queen of Tarsus who plots the murder of our heroine Marina. (Taylor's final appearance, as the goddess Diana in an extraordinary strip tease scene, was equally impressive. But, unfortunately, the moment is ephemeral and cannot be recaptured in prose...
...this gloss, Moore comfortably muttered, "I don't think I've satisfied him," and moved on to the next question. Moore seems proud of his minimal educational back-ground, as if it gives him some humanistic understanding of the working class, which professional analysts cannot see. This may be, but there is a lot of analysis that Moore apparently cannot see either...
...turtle, but had simply been put in a fake turtle shell by evil carnival managers that had convinced Jaboti of her turtlehood when she was too young to know the truth. Despite her attempts to provide a rational explanation of Jaboti's surreal biography, though, Harlan's mother cannot help but be nervous about the influence of this story, worrying that such fantasy might render Harlan unable "to tell the truth from the truth...
...securitysystems, the rock star Harlan manages fights witha masquerade of words and costumes and her husbandfights by reviving his identity as an African.With no simple guard at her disposal, Harlan mustrely upon a more internal system of defense--herrefusal to accept society's basic tenets as herown. She cannot be imprisoned by shackles she doesnot believe...