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This is not a play for the misty-eyed or faint of heart, but it is truly not nihilistic. What's magnetic about George and Martha is the double-edge nature of their emotions, and the fact that ultimately, they are not even sure they know themselves the way they know each other. Albee once said of the conclusion of Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf, "we must try to claw our way into compassion." The play begins and ends in darkness, and after the brutal glare of judgment intervening, it's an act of mercy to gesture towards...
...would stand up with her cigar in her mouth and faint into the arms of one of the boys for a kiss. I mean, this says a lot about up with her cigar in her mouth and faint intothe arms of one of the boys for a kiss. I mean,this says a lot about her, she was doing this inher 50s," he said...
This may well be as much attention to blacks as Broadway audiences would allow in 1927, but today the narrative defects of Oscar Hammerstein II's book are too glaring for Prince's razzmatazz to overcome. At best the script is a faint and fractured ghost of Edna Ferber's overstuffed novel. At worst it is a herky-jerky alternation of melodramatic vignettes yanked out of context and escapist bursts of clowning and dance...
...when Clinton's "Climate Change Action Plan" finally debuted last week, environmentalists could muster only faint praise. Aimed at rolling back greenhouse emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000, the document lists 50 initiatives, including incentives to spur use of public transit and expanded programs to promote energy efficiency. But there are two major omissions: the plan does nothing to raise auto-fuel-economy standards, and it contains no | energy-tax hikes to boost conservation...
Klotz said Haskell had a faint heartbeat and was breathing but was unconscious. After attempting mouth-to-mouth recuscitation, Klotz sent a friend to call an ambulance...