Word: copse
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Yet A Steady Rain turns out to be better than I had any right to expect - better, in fact, than any new American play on Broadway since August Osage County.Its two stars, an Australian and a Brit playing a pair of Chicago cops, are startlingly good: magnetic, commanding the stage...
The play, in its understated way, is just as impressive. Huff has done two hard things. He has taken very familiar subject matter - the morally ambiguous life of cops working the mean streets - and made it seem fresh, authentic, brutally uncompromising yet not sensationalized. And he has done it using...
Huff's monologues come alive in a way most conventional plays don't. In recounting the horrific, but hardly implausible, series of events that push their friendship to the breaking point, the two cops narrate much of the action; occasionally comment indirectly on each other's recollections; sometimes re-create...
According to Knox, these two women were among a group of both male and female cops who browbeat a false confession out of her in the middle of the night almost two years ago. They deny it.
As the protesters redirected what turned out to be a winding, three-hour trek, they pushed more Dumpsters into the street, or downhill toward law enforcement, and smashed the windows of a Boston Market and Mini car dealership, along with 17 banks and other businesses, by police count. The cops...