Word: eveing
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...goes well, until Eve (Jessica Walling) awakens from her lifeless sleep, a symbol of her creation by God. She has the uncanny ability to call thing by their correct names; what Adam calls a `four-pronged white squirter', she instinctively calls a cow. Her superior knowledge disturbs Adam, but he reassures himself by flaunting his comic abilities--all of which has nothing to do with terrible fate, bit it gives levity to the otherwise grim storyline...
...disconcerting. In time, each learns to depend on the other. The two characters establish a congenial rapport--having agreed on the fact that they were the only two creatures who could talk--despite all their disagreements about whether something was a "pickerel" or a "swimmer" or whether Eve was "raining" or "crying...
...characters that Harnick and Bock have created condone social stereotypes of men and women: Eve is interested in her gardening, while Adam, with echoes of My Fair Lady's Henry Higgins, thinks Eve's emotions are "sentimental hogwash...
...Hand: Last December, Clinton said, "With the dwindling Soviet threat, we can cut defense spending by over a third by 1997," in part by canceling production of unnecessary weapons systems. . . On the Other Hand: On the eve of the Connecticut primary, Clinton reminded voters that he supports the construction of the $2 billion Seawolf nuclear submarine, which happens to be built in Groton, Conn. Bush's budget deleted the sub as too costly and unnecessary...
...into Walt II. Or, rather, Walt 2, for Disney has expanded exponentially, its ambition and energy personified by the two bosses. At 4 a.m. one day last week, each man could be seen wandering the park like a parent wrapping a beautiful new toy for his child on Christmas Eve, or like the child waiting to unwrap it. They were showing by example how Disney does things, with Japanese-style management that predates the Japanese system: order, loyalty, pitching in, a fanatical and productive meticulousness...