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...Forbush and the middle-aged French plantation owner Emile de Beque - along with the show?s big love ballad, are basically disposed of in the very first scene. The rest of the show is an exploration of that relationship, an unraveling of backstory, the placing of it in the context of everything else that is going on in the play, and the world...
...Mostly they escape through song, and it?s wondrous to see and hear the over-familiar melodies and lyrics in context again. ?Some Enchanted Evening?, which always struck me as the stodgiest of the big R&H love ballads, becomes an affecting, shape-shifting reflection of the show?s emotional movement, from the joy of love-at-first-sight to the rueful foreshadowing of love lost. Even the seemingly simple lyrics of ?A Wonderful Guy? glide from ironic detachment to full-throated romanticism with deceptive wit and charm...
...Craig A. Kelley said that the budget proposal does not tell enough holistically about Cambridge public schools. “There’s a lot of information in this budget,” Kelley said. “I can’t put any of it in context.” He also said he was a “bit disappointed” in the lack of discussion on the implications of the district’s Parent Attitudes Study done last year. The results of the study, released in May of last year, reported that...
Some architects produce work with a signature look. Richard Meier is one. Daniel Libeskind is another. Almost anything they do is instantly recognizable as theirs. Jean Nouvel isn't one of those. He's playful, contradictory and devoted to the idea of context - designs that grow out of their surroundings and are bracingly different. His career is proof that paying close attention to the neighborhood is a good way to find new avenues...
...keep. As to which, consider this: the Taliban recently ordered four cell-phone companies in the country to shut down at night to prevent the U.S. military from tracking cell-phone-carrying insurgents, although the military says it doesn't actually do so. Zinni puts the situation in context. "European countries saying that, 'We contribute to NATO because we're involved in reconstruction,'" he says dismissively, "is like saying, 'I'm in charge of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic...