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...young country staggered through its grief, seeking a unified identity out of dozens of feuding ethnic divisions, history continued to deal blow after blow. Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan's first Prime Minister and Jinnah's political heir, was shot dead in 1951 by a Pashtun separatist. Fifty-six years later, Benazir Bhutto died in the very same park. One of her attending doctors was the son of the physician who tried, and failed, to save Khan's life...
...Pakistan buried Benazir Bhutto, many of her supporters there turned to violence to express their grief and anger over her assassination. In Britain, where Bhutto has lived off and on in self-imposed exile for eight years until her final return to Pakistan two months ago, the mourning has been quieter and more solemn. But the emotions are just as deep. Many of Britain's estimated 750,000 Pakistanis had embraced Bhutto as a symbol of hope for freedom and stability back home. As Britain's politicians pay tribute to a fallen leader, the country's Pakistanis are trying...
Jack Nicholson's description of terminal illness: "You go home to some ceremonial procession into death, with everyone standing around watching you die while you try to comfort them. Is that what you want? To be smothered by pity and grief...
...directorial decisions contribute to the over-dramatization of the actors. In the case of blocking, the lack of acting off center stage makes the rest of the theatre seem cluttered with statues rather than actors. For example, when Titus renounces his children, one would expect his sons to be grief-stricken at both their father’s anger and their brother’s death. Instead, they expressionlessly examine the corpse as though it were a lab cadaver...
...space to relay what might be a message of political persecution against women in much of the Arab world. Dakin, who also appeared as the primary dancer of “Heretic” and staged that piece as well, was masterful in her ability to convey messages of grief and anguish to the audience through her facial expressions as well as her movements. The final dance was a premiere of “Caprices,” a set of eight short pieces performed to the music of Niccolo Paganini. Because a different person choreographed almost every work...