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...vision and all, however, the story is still the same. Those who call it a romance say it focuses on the passionate love affair between Antony (Noah Feinstein '98) and Cleopatra (Erin Billings '00); people who think it a tragedy dwell on Antony's fatal flaw; and historians remember it for the end battle of Actium, which marks the end of the Hellenistic Age and beginning of the Roman Empire. As Foley's interpretation sees it, however, Antony and Cleopatra follows Antony's infatuation with Cleopatra and a long line of her betrayals: first, when she aligns herself with Caesar...
...while Chen has faced many of the cultural dilemmas that the dozens of Chinese graduate students studying science at Harvard see daily, he says that he has not had the time to dwell on them...
...that quote strikes you as uncomfortably close to what "let them eat cake" might sound like if translated into Upper East Side real estate talk, try to forget it. Dwell on something comforting--the fact, for instance, that the maintenance in an A+ building can often be expressed as something in the teen thousands. Whatever you do, don't panic...
...shame to dwell on the negative," she said. "No one intended anything bad to happen...
When the local hippie minister makes a mildly suggestive remark to Elena, she says, "I'm going to try hard not to understand the implications of that." That is the cardinal rule here: Don't ask, don't dwell. One of the chilliest moments in The Ice Storm comes in an edgy scene where Ben tells Elena, "I guess we're just on the verge of saying something--saying something to each other." Saying something harsh and truthful would be a breaking of the code, of the lies that sustain their marriage and keep it arid...