Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The wow-Hasidic-Jews! genre is now 0 for 2. Renee Zwelleger plays Sonya, a Hasidic Jew who can't handle her religion's strict more. Constantly red-faced or stuck in a deliriously cheesy monologue, Zwelleger tears into the role trying to make the film somewhat watchable. All her...
Nonetheless, it comes as a relief when, in the play's second half, the performance style swiftly sobers up, allowing us to reconnect with the story's plot line and characters--elements that have been largely drowned out during the first half in the loud static of eighth-grade toilet...
"We knew going in [Henderson] was very, very good," sophomore Deborah Abeles said. "Other than Fresno State's pitchers, she's the best we've faced this season."
The happy couple gets along charmingly well--until Lidie discovers that one of their trunks is filled with guns that Thomas is bringing to his friends and fellow abolitionists. Suddenly, she finds herself faced with her first doubts about the match. But she handles them in a typical Lidieesque, no...
Other details of the novel add to its credibility. The quaint chapter titles--from "I Improve My Friendship with Mr. Newton" to "I Go Among the Enemy"--make the tone honest yet personable. The opening quotes to each chapter, from Lidie's beloved book A Treatise on Domestic Economy, for...