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...Bruhl is a wonderful mix of smug cynicism and crafty nonchalance. Adding a tinge of frustration and self-pity to his portrayal, Rouse gives the audience something to which they can relate, allowing us to feel for and sometimes even root for a man capable of murder and deceit. Dressed like an Olympic coach from the former Soviet Union, Alexis Susman as the Dutch psychic Helga Ten Dorp, delivers the play's most amusing lines with appropriate timing and sense of mock seriousness. Benjamin's slick, swaggering and sleazy charm make him a convincing pretty-boy writer and conspirator...
Nothing dates so fast as novelty, and nothing ill becomes a playwright so drastically as having mature peaks contrasted with juvenilia. Thus no one is served, neither writer nor audience, by reviving Peter Shaffer's one-acts about sex, greed and self-deceit. White Liars, the opener, has been rewritten but remains derivative sentimentality about an old East European immigrant barely getting by as a fortune teller on the holiday coast of England. Black Comedy relies on the gimmick of pretending that lights are out when they are on, so people stumble about in unintended sexual tangles while the audience...
This mistreatment, he says, is a combination of deceit, insensitivity and neglect. "First we don't tell them they are dying. We do tell them their diagnosis and all the alternative treatments available. But we don't tell them their prognosis. We tell them 'You have cancer, and you can have surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, or all three together, or even any two.' We don't tell them that no matter what we do, it's almost certain they are going to die soon...
...complex game of social chess played by chimps and other primates, having the intellectual skills to anticipate a rival's moves and engage in deceit is a distinct advantage. Consider the double deception observed at a feeding station in Tanzania's Gombe Stream Reserve. A wild chimp had the luck to be alone next to a feeding box when it was opened by remote control. Noticing that another, more dominant chimp was approaching, the first one closed the box and moved nonchalantly away until the second chimp moved on. Once the interloper was gone, the first chimp opened...
...credit, USA Today condemned the reporter's deceit, and suspended and fined him. Nonetheless, damage has been done...