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Richard Jenkins' direction is fluid, creating a continuity of action to match the fast-paced dialogue. The number of slamming doors and quick turnabouts may not rival Noises Off, but the pace of this production never flags. David Rotondo's set nicely blends the amicable clutter of the New England Wire and Cable with the shiny paneling of Garfinkel's New York office, allowing the characters to ignore time and space as they travel between New York and Rhode Island...
...morning shift had just started when an overhead hydraulic line ruptured, spilling its volatile fluid onto the floor. Gas burners under the frying vats ignited the vapors and turned the 30,000-sq.-ft. plant into an inferno of flame and thick, yellow smoke. Panicked employees rushed for emergency exits only to find several of them locked. "I thought I was gone, until a man broke the lock off," says Letha Terry, one of the survivors. Twenty-five of Terry's fellow employees were not so lucky. Their bodies were found clustered around the blocked doorways or trapped...
...course deciding about abortion is not easy. Compromise and common ground are difficult to find on many issues. The American social contract is fluid, rapidly changing, postmodernist, just as the American gene and culture pool is turbulently new every day. Life improvises rich dilemmas, but they fly by like commercial breaks, hallucinatory, riveting, half-noticed. What is the moral authority behind a social contract so vivid and illegible? Only the zealously asserted styles of the new tribes (do this, don't do this, look a certain way, think a certain way, and that will make you all right...
...aspect of human existence, are likely to become even more perplexing to most Americans. And now churches that once served as sources of clear moral guidance are likewise grappling uncertainly with these issues as they try to decide whether their sexual standards will derive from biblical tradition or the fluid folkways of modernity...
Congress realizes that this is the only path that might truly lead to peace--but it can't singlehandedly make it work. The fluid state of diplomacy in the Middle East will not last long unless the Bush administration, which took upon itself the responsibility of stopping aggression in the region, now finishes the job it began...