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Once this inner plot starts making sense (not, one could argue, until the "Diagram" in scene 14) it's fun to piece things together. But this task is often distracted into a fumbling account of the scores of #'s literary references. Some of these references are disjunct and capricious, but the best, like the Interlude of scene five, are masterpieces of intertextuality without being "coterie items. "Rising from trash cans borrowed from Beckett, Ezra Pound (Yu) and T.S. Eliot (Marler) offer up literature. In a later scene, Pound, with Robert Lowell, reflects that he "began with swollen head, and ended...
...inundated with options. Even before choosing a pattern or color, the customer must select the proper shape and size of cloth. Many shoppers may require guidance when considering the many options: the cafe, breakfast, European, dinner, printed round, topper, and harvest cloth. One ought never fear, though, a handy diagram explains all the pertinent differences, clearly indicating how the cafe cloth creates "the perfect table for romantic bistro dining" while European is most appropriate when holding "smaller dinner parties the way Europeans...
...Party died. By Thursday, Hillary was putting together a new, combative team. She wondered if her old, ousted alter ego Harold Ickes could come back, and she added Mickey Kantor to the legal team, more for his political skills than his legal ones. Adviser Sid Blumenthal created a gigantic diagram inside his office outlining with circles and arrows the byzantine Republican conspiracy surrounding the tapes. A fierce argument raged over whether the First Couple, singly or together, should sit down for some big, cathartic confessional on the state of their union before Tuesday's State of the Union. But that...
...version of Segal's book. When Jones won an Oscar in 1994 for The Fugitive, Gore tried to phone congratulations to him backstage, "but somebody kept hanging up on me," Gore said. "It was, 'Sure you're Al Gore'--click." Then he moved on, grabbing a cocktail napkin to diagram a new system for making Internet connections via satellite. Through it all, he never let anything slip or allowed the conversation to turn back to the job. When he praised a pbs documentary on Harry Truman, a reporter observed that as Vice President, Truman rarely saw F.D.R. Gore changed...
...blow up the Alfred P. Murrah building. "He said it was an easy target," recalled Lori Fortier, the wife of McVeigh's close friend Michael Fortier. Mrs. Fortier said that during the conversation, which took place in October 1994 in the Fortier's Arizona mobile home, McVeigh drew a diagram, using soup cans to illustrate how he planned to bundle the bomb in a shaped triangular charge for maximum damage. "He said that he and Terry (Nichols) would do it together, that Terry would mix the bomb," she said, adding that the two were out for revenge against the government...