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There are good reasons why Administration officials played it coy on the subject of whether they intended to kill Gaddafi with a well-aimed bomb. For one thing, acknowledging such an attempt could provoke a political fire storm. But more important, the idea of killing a leader raises difficult legal and moral issues, issues that the Administration seems unwilling and unready to confront publicly...
...have always avoided each other, and when Miss Anna learns the truth about her parentage--Deer never allows the audience enough emotional distance to perceive what is happening as mere craftsmanship. She benefits greatly from Kent Stephens' direction and a superb cast. Mitchell, as a woman both addled and coy with age, has the showiest part...
Indeed. The Bangles win over the audience as soon as they show up onstage for their 80-minute set. Being a women's band gives them an edge, and being attractive puts them even further ahead of the game. They do not play coy onstage, and their come-on is never as sexy as their pal Prince's, but those guys screaming in the crowd out there aren't just going bonkers for the guitar licks...
...thieves' metamorphosis, of course, never overstated. After Neara and Snow regain their long-lost youthful courage by plotting the theft, Snow turns to Harriet one day in their bookshop and compliments her on her dress. No emotional plea, or philosophic soliloquy. Just a couple of kind words and a coy blush from Harriet...
...like-a-dame thinking underlies Jerry's Girls, a retrospective pastiche of Herman's work, featuring Dorothy Loudon, Leslie Uggams, Chita Rivera and eight chorines, which opened on Broadway last week. It also applies to two compelling new performances in plays, both by old hands: Rosemary Harris as a coy, manipulative grande dame of the stage in Noel Coward's astringent farce Hay Fever and Uta Hagen, the original Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, as a practical and amoral urchin turned madam in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession...