Word: existence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...underage "rent boys" that Ravenhill depicts with such clear-eyed intelligence, are not there to chastise or shock the audience any more than a stripper and a doctor in Marber's Closer are there simply to comment on sex as a transaction or on socialized medicine. These characters exist not to tell us something we already knew when we came into the theater but to represent particular, idiosyncratic habits of mind and give voice to something that could not be expressed in any other...
When I enter Boston's Logan airport and emerge in Boise's Beeson airport, the differences usually strike me first. The air is clean, the men all open doors for me and everyone walks just a little bit slower. But some things exist to remind me that this is still the United States and that there's a lot tying us together...
Jodie Foster is ideally cast as Ellie Arroway, a brilliant astronomer who has devoted her life to attempting to communicate with the extraterrestrial life she feels sure must exist somewhere among the billions of stars. Battling continual funding problems and other setbacks, her search is finally vindicated when a radio transmission arrives from the distant star Vega. It is decoded to reveal instructions for building a machine believed to be capable of transporting its occupant through deep space...
...thought that a political game didn't exist--that the governor was standing up for his principles because that, in itself, is a good thing--seemed to elude them...
...only thing more incredible than extraterrestrials' visiting Earth is the U.S. government's denying that they exist." GARY OSTROW Fort Lauderdale...