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...comedy is McDonagh's signature. He can shock an audience into laughing at just about anything (suicide, patricide, terrorism, famine), and his expletive-ridden dialogue - its cadence and Celtic slang borrowed from his Irish background - can make even the most banal comment sound like a punch line. Audiences first fell for McDonagh's gritty, witty brand of theater in 1996, when his first play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane - about the love-hate relationship between a spinster and her domineering mother - won the then 26-year-old a handful of awards and the first of many Tony nominations. Since then...
There's an old axiom: Never trust a skinny chef. Any comment? -John Rhodes, SALT LAKE CITYWell, if he's trying to say I'm too skinny, thank you. I've never loved clothes enough to give up food, and I never will...
Another public comment came from Cambridge City Councillor Craig A. Kelley, who has two children in the school district. “My wife and I would not want to have them any place else,” he said, lauding the “immense amount of good news about our public school system...
...Michael Mello, a professor at Vermont Law School who has written extensively on the death penalty, chose an apt verb when he was reached for comment on the decision. "I'm still excavating the opinions," he said by e-mail. It was quite a pile to wade through. "But I think it's as confusing as the road map required through Furman," Mello continued, referring to the 1972 case - nine separate opinions making up the longest text in Court history - that began America's frustrating attempt to create a consistent, rational death penalty. When it comes to the death penalty...
...dangerous perception. "Mistakes become "gaffes" when they play to an underlying stereotype," said Michael Munger, a political science professor at Duke University. "The Obama stereotype is a wealthy Ivy League elitist. He's a little too well-spoken; his suits are a little too expensive. From him, the comment comes off as condescending...