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...expressiveness in the tete-a-tete with her former high school "crush." In face, voice, and gesture, she touchingly evoked the painful shyness and self-consciousness of the disabled girl who is given one brief chance to bloom. Yet she also possessed an air of unexpected (and deeply affecting) grace and dignity in the most heartbreaking moment of the play...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: A World Made of Broken Glass and Shattered Dreams | 5/16/1997 | See Source »

...actors are able to equal, Figueroa single-handedly creates the soul of the performance, only to be sorely missed after her death at the barricades. She deftly combines a street-smart savvy with the brokenheartedness of a woman in love, and becomes the most pitiable and beloved character to grace Les Miserables...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: 'Les Miserables': Still Amazing After All These Years | 5/16/1997 | See Source »

Most storage facilities sell boxes and tape, and a few even offer packaging material. If you hope to find your Auntie Grace's porcelain vase still in one piece after the summer, you might be better off visiting professional packagers...

Author: By J. LOBSHIM Kwan, | Title: Summer Storage Worries? Stow 'EM | 5/16/1997 | See Source »

...comedies. Clampett bent his stories and pummeled his characters into manic, surreal, endless inventive farce; his great period (1942-46) deserves a book of its own. Jones' films were about people--all right, barnyard critters, but human withal--who endured life's vithithitudes (as Daffy would say) with amazing grace and Charlie Chaplin's physical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARTOONS ARE NO LAUGHING MATTER | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

Burt-Kinderman performs the balancing act well. She moves with a casual grace that really transforms the Loeb from a theatre space into a real woman's apartment. She also has the rare comic gift of winning laughs without seeming to have any punch lines. Her jokes fall humbly out of her mouth as if she had just made them...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, | Title: The Cook, the Waitress, Her Bed and Her Toothbrush | 5/9/1997 | See Source »

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