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Kundera's novel is fortunately much better than this mouthy beginning promises. Kundera emerges as a personable, witty, and capably fluid narrator, whose story line is even and surprisingly thorough. It is puzzling, by the time one has finished the book, that a narrator as humane and accomplished as Kundera would have begun so blockily...
That fear turns out to be entirely groundless. For Director Michael Rudman's fluid, driving production is not just a revival and a restaging, nor even a reinterpretation of the play, but a virtual reinvention of it. And Hoffman's performance as Willy is nothing short of a revelation. He has stripped away all the doomy portents that have encrusted the character over the years and brought him down to fighting weight, a scrappy, snappy little bantam, whom the audience may, if it wishes, choose to see as a victim, but who almost never sees himself that...
Surface perceptions have become increasingly important in the face of a more fluid electorate. Party identification has fallen steadily in the past twenty years and ticket splitting is no longer regarded as a sin. In order to win, a candidate must attract a majority of the independent voters who do not identify strongly with either of the major parties. These are the hard sell voters who can often be swayed, in the end, by skillful image-making...
Even the game itself, sponsored by the American Women Hockey Coaches Association, showed just how fluid the transition in the sport of women's ice hockey has become. Several coaches, amongst them Harvard's John Dooley, are pressing to change the format of the women's games from the three 18-minute periods that are standard now to a two 25-minute or two 20-minute system...
...outside the bubble. The symptoms, doctors feared, were signs of the often fatal graft vs. host disease, which occurs when cells from donated marrow attack the recipient's body. During the next 15 days, David developed severe ulceration of his digestive tract and a dangerous accumulation of fluid in his lungs and around his heart. The exhausted child finally died of cardiac failure. Shearer recalled that at the end David asked, "Why don't we just pull out all these tubes and let me go home...