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...words of outrage, demands for justice, pleas for moderation, and abhorrence of violence seem terribly hollow and inadequate now. In the North, the bald fact of death for men who might have been friends, or sons, is evocative enough. In the South, the language is not the same; the paradoxical meanings of justice, law, and minority rights make our words impotent...
...they are to get to know each other, they must pretend that they do. They develop injokes between themselves, as a safer way to experiment with intimacy. And they find new words for feelings that are too embarrassing to call by their real names, or whose names are hollow: "Hell," says the girl near the end of the play, "I love everybody. You I like...
...saucer. Such disks jiggle at a fingertip touch, but may weigh as much as 13 Ibs.-as a thief discovered when he tried to whisk one away from the Chrysler Art Museum, only to have it drop with a clang. The second, also a space-age motif, resembles the hollow cone of a missile. Inside, visible from both ends, are two metallic spheres, one hanging down like a tiny bathysphere on its nylon thread, and by its magnet attracting the magnet in another sphere that levitates upward, tethered by a thread. Each open end of the sculpture gives...
...lawyer who will kick back to them a substantial part of the fee." Often this "lazy and incompetent" court hanger-on falsely claims that he can "fix someone" for a higher fee. Since he "seldom knows any law or reads any cases," his arguments in court are "so transparently hollow that it is not easy for most juries to sympathize with his client...
...such scenes are all too few. They soon give way to the hollow, uneasy attempts to recreate the magnitude of Roman politics. David Ritten-house as Antony acts with subtlety and feeling when he faces the conspirators immediately following the murder: he expresses both his love for Caesar and a diplomatic respect for the assassins. But if this relatively modest scene has in it all that is good about Caesar, what follows reveals all that...