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...Plots in good crime fiction are so insidious that they get into your head and you don't even know that they're there. I was once writing a book - I forget which one it was, it was one of the Easy Rawlins ones - I was way more than halfway through when I realized, "This is very familiar to me." I'm talking to myself, saying "Well, of course it is, you just wrote it." And then I said, "No, it's familiar for some other reason." And then I realized that I had read it in another book...
...Bovell now having its U.S. premiere at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater - is something that really throws the audience out of its comfort zone. This challenging play has the most complicated time-shifting dramatic structure I've seen in years. Nothing really falls into place until about halfway through its dark, intense, intermissionless hour and 45 minutes. "I guess what I was interested in doing," Bovell told an interviewer before the play opened, "is giving the audience a bit of work to do." To which I say, Hallelujah. (See pictures of the Royal Shakespeare Company through history...
...inside the Russian government, the trend was going in the opposite direction. Medvedev and other liberals still felt trust for Obama and seemed ready to meet him halfway. But conservatives - mainly old-school apparatchiks, security chiefs and former KGB officers like Putin - began to express their doubts about the reset in relations. "It's been frustrating," the U.S. senior official tells TIME on condition of anonymity. "We came in with an aggressive reset mentality, and it was not necessarily shared by everyone in the Russian government. The Russians are overwhelmed by all the things we want to do tomorrow...
With Matera’s strong defense, the Crimson battled to gain its lead back once more. Except for a brief five-point gap, Harvard stayed within two or three points of Princeton in the first 10 minutes of the second frame. Halfway through, the Crimson trailed by three, 57-54, and the shot at the Ivy League title was still a definite possibility...
...Jason Wade sings, “Every time I see your face / My heart takes off on a high speed chase,” and promises, “I would never do you wrong / Or let you down or lead you on.” “Halfway Gone” takes up a similarly melodramatic theme, Wade singing, “Talk, talk is cheap / Give me a word you can keep.” These themes, however, are too often repeated throughout the remainder of the album, and the concoction of hope, despair, and love which...