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...unclear what will happen to the proposal, but if the original goal of achieving consensus remains, its future appears dim...
...expressing outraged opinions on controversial subjects. Here, however, working from a free adaptation of an autobiographical book by Sister Prejean, they have chosen to pursue a matter too subtle for sloganeering: the faint possibility that evil and goodness can find a way of speaking to one another, the dim hope that the former can be in some sense redeemed, the latter in some sense educated...
Ceilings are completely covered by panels of bright fluorescent lights, which can provide lighting levels ranging from dim to extremely bright...
...mother answered, smiling quietly and motioning him in from the cold. He entered, proceeding obediently across the hallway in a line of noncommittal greetings and hugs, remembering the smell of home and the dim incandescent lights, the pattern of the wallpaper and the globs of varnish on the wooden bannister. His four older siblings had all arrived home earlier, all with their uncomfortable spouses. He trudged up the stairs and into his room, collapsing onto his high school bed. It smelled stale and abandoned. That night he dreamt of driving a small black convertible on a summer night downtown...
Deceptively lightweight, "Company" nevertheless captures real moments of human emotion without weighing the audience down with sentimentality or artistic pretensions. Sondheim and Furth add irony, a much-needed quality in a musical, without being too self-consicous about it. Even their "types" (crusty matron, dim-but-nubile stewrdess), manage to escape cliche. And when the couples sing "The Little Things You Do Together," with barely-hidden hostility, they articulate the uncanny need for men and women to stay together, no matter how ridiculously miserable they might...