Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despair of a dying man who feels utterly bereft, unheard, dismissed. This lovely little revelation has an antecedent in Big, when the overgrown kid sits alone in a creepy hotel room and ponders his dreadful solitude. He's wonderful at portraying someone who's just been sucker-punched by fate...
...ending of the play is left ambiguous. Gus and Ben are waiting on their victim to arrive, but one of them gets in the way. In the end we are left hanging, we do not know who, or if, anyone is killed. It is likely that Fate, the boss, or whoever has turned on Gus. This innocent man may fall victim to the evil which he has sensed but cannot find the words to explain. It may be that he, and not the old elevator shaft with its moveable shelf which sends the message of death, is the actual dumb...
...bear to omit any of his research. But his approach prevents Wyatt Earp from developing a compelling dramatic arc, and it doesn't help a rather glum and withdrawn Kevin Costner make the eponymous protagonist into a dynamic or even very attractive figure. Mostly he is fate's pawn, grimly enduring one damn thing after another...
Marriage, the end of it and the avoidance of it, seems to be a theme which ties "White" with "Blue." Julie in "Blue" was sentenced by Fate to solitude. She claimed it as independence. In "While," Karol reclaims the power he has lost with the end of his marriage and uses his sex as a bargaining tool. Again, this is a liberation of sorts from the traditional role which assigns women the role of using sex for power. Here the usual is reversed and a new story unfolds. Karol cannot maintain his marriage because of his impotence...
...recent State Department report cites evidence that Mladic had "overall responsibility for the camp system." One witness, a Croat who had been an officer in the regular Yugoslav army and later spent 14 months in various Serb-run detention centers, testified that Mladic in some cases decided the fate of individual prisoners. "The Serb detention camps and prison system in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in occupied Croat territory was an integrated entity organized under the corps structure of the army of the ((Bosnian)) Serb republic and operated with full knowledge and support of the Yugoslav army," the report says...