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...someone talking to herself late at night. Her thoughts on everything from photography to the gulf conflict are spoken as her songs are written and sung: in a tone of quiet asperity, but with public emphasis. "If this is a holy war," she muses about the gulf, taking a drag on one of her frequent cigarettes, "God is pissed at us, and damn right." Just goes to show: a little dissonance does no harm. And it can certainly make a fine Night Ride Home...
...High Speed, Low Drag. Phrase indicating that an operation went exactly...
...Pudding show is entertaining. Face it, you're not going there for an Aristotelian evocation of cathartic pity and fear. You're going there to hear bawdy jokes and to see your male classmates in drag...
...does the play drag so? For one, Family Secrets is obscenely overwritten. The first two acts consist almost entirely of the grandmother reminiscing about her life. Again and again, Diane asks a question or shows Theresa a photo which triggers her grandmother to say, "God, that brings back memories." She then starts an interminable monologue about escaping from Warsaw during the Nazi occupation, or coming to America, or her late husband Joe. These speeches present a detailed and authentic-sounding portrait of Eastern European immigrants, but so what? The details have nothing to do with the plot and, more important...
...which, strangely enough, dovetails with Saddam's thinking. The allies are attempting to minimize casualties; Saddam will try to make the war supremely bloody. To exactly that end, however, he will try to drag out the fighting as long as possible. Right now he is "hunkering down" -- in the words of General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- putting up only minimal resistance to the air campaign and saving all possible resources to fight what the Iraqi leader keeps calling "the mother of all battles" on the ground...