Word: cowardly
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...psychic, predicts the cancer-caused death of Fidel Castro in 1995) Hijuelos displays the inventive and playful quality that surfaced in Mambo Kings, which incorporated Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Here, he manages to work in everyone from Teddy Roosevelt and jimmy Carter to Error Flynn and Noel Coward...
Danny Shivakumar almost steals the show with his charming portrayal of Dvornicek the porter. He constantly interrupts the main action and both abets and confounds Turais's plans. The role of Dvornicek is necessary both to sketch and flesh out the lines this play keep crossing between a Noel Coward-style romp and a post-modern mockery. The first scene is the weakest and least lively, probably because it is the most "straight" and Stoppard's script seems confined at first by the boundaries he had set for himself. The show really begins in the second scene where the silly...
...plea that pulses behind the multitude of voices is one that urges us against the way we avert our eyes and close our ears. It urges us to abandon the opaque tunnels down which we race so blindly, so deafly. It urges us against the coward's impulse to step lightly around the tough issues and only ask the polite questions, while stifling those which clamor in mute repression for voice. It urges us against our penchant to accept the soundbite without listening to the sound. It urges us to turn the pointing finger inward and the embracing arm outward...
...answer, it seems, would be just to stop the whole business. Shut my eyes and slump away from the writing thing--find another pasttime that's more gentle on the soul. But I am, like Tim O'Brien writes, "too frightened to be a coward...
...answer, it seems, would be just to stop the whole business. Shut my eyes and slump away from the writing thing--find another pasttime that's more gentle on the soul. But I am, like Tim O'Brien writes, "too frightened to be a coward...