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Wait Until Dark requires deft stage direction and vigilant consistency since the story unfolds in real-time and the action rarely leaves the interior of the house. Ironically, the tight stage space of the Pool Theater allows this production to rise to the occasion. With careful attention to detail and placement, the crew has recreated the quaint apartment of Suzy and Sam Hendrix. Visible to the audience are the kitchen (complete with refrigerator, washer, etc.) and the living room, while the brief scenes in the bedroom are conveyed using illuminated character shadows...
When I heard that Newt Gingrich was stepping down as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, I recalled your article [NATION, Oct. 12] "On the Fast Track to Impeach," in which you wrote, "It takes a deft touch to set the right trap; but if you do, the other one will stumble right into it." I believe Gingrich set the right trap, but he himself stumbled right into it! KHASHAYAR RIAZY Tehran...
...this is not surprising to the average Rusted Root fan. By combining lead singer Mike Glabicki's lucid vibrato and earth-moving wails with the entire band's ethereal usage of percussion instruments, Rusted Root comes across as a deft mixture of the Grateful Dead, a Native American ghost story and perhaps more than a little peyote (even if it was smoked only by the album cover artist.) Translation: if one of Barbara Kingsolver's books was made into a movie, this music would be the sound-track...
...snippets to create a false impression," his lawyers have used none of their lengthy periods of cross-examination to offer a better context. And the combination of Gates's dismissive attitude and faulty memory won't go down well with the judge either, says Cohen: "You need to be deft in explaining why you don't remember something. I'm not sure his performance rises to that level." Microsoft may be earning stockholders a fat 62 cents per share -? but if antitrust law kicks in, even the market will notice...
...Running Man, Ventura's Captain Freedom is an gladiator-turned TV commentator (in a deft poke at today's NFL jocks-in-the booth culture) who hunts, and then grudgingly respects, Ah-nold. In Predator (1987), he's a gruff special-forces type who hunts a alien in the jungle, and grudgingly respects his commander, Ah-nold. And