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...precise forensic catalog of those killings, complete with torn nylons and hematomas and vaginal swabs, mingled together with the stories of the detectives who are working the case and of their principal suspect, an enormous German named Klaus Haas. It is a police procedural straight from the precinct of hell. It is also as bravura a display of novelistic mastery, and as devastating a reading experience, as you are likely ever to encounter. By the time the novelist Archimboldi does show up in Part 5, a belated Godot, we are very far past the possibility of anything resembling a redemptive...
...yards separating the audience from the actors, all of the convulsions, screams, rolling on the floor, waving of arms, and moaning seem too much to digest and at times almost comical. Still, credit should really be given to the actors, as this is not an easy play to execute. Hell, Medina is forced to remain cross-eyed the entire show, a feat that gives me a headache just thinking about it. And though Mrs. Venable’s madness is certainly not easy to portray, Aykroyd delivers her long monologues stuttering in a heavy southern accent all the while remaining...
...because it provides the only available language on certain topics. "I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words," he said. "For instance, 'soul." I don't believe in an afterlife or heaven or hell, yet there isn't a secular word for that feeling that we are not only flesh and blood. Whether you're religious or not you may find yourself obliged to use language shaped by religion...
...Austin Knowlin just made one hell of a catch in the back left corner of the end zone. Extra point is good. 11 plays for 75 yards, 2:57 time of possession. HARVARD 42, COLUMBIA...
...Instead, you bring in a guy like Emanuel, the most hardheaded, no-nonsense, foul-mouthed, smart-as-hell, get-it-done-or-get-out-of-my-way Washington insider of his generation. And you put him in charge of a White House staff whose task it is - and this is putting it conservatively - to conceive, propose, promote and somehow push through Congress the most ambitious agenda any President has carried forth at least since Ronald Reagan rode into town with a lopsided grin in January 1981. "Rahm does not sing 'Kumbaya,' " says an old friend and colleague with a laugh...