Word: huffs
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...either that some old warhorse has been revived merely to service the career needs of a Hollywood ego, or that a flimsy new construction has been trundled onstage just to see how much of the scenery can be chewed up. A Steady Rain,a new Broadway play by Keith Huff starring Hugh Jackman and Daniel (James Bond) Craig, raises another warning flag the minute the lights go up. The two actors are the only people on stage, talking directly to the audience, and the play is little more than a pair of interwoven monologues...
...play, in its understated way, is just as impressive. Huff has done two hard things. He has taken very familiar subject matter - the morally ambiguous life of cops working the mean streets - and made it seem fresh, authentic, brutally uncompromising yet not sensationalized. And he has done it using a device - actors talking directly to the audience - that is too often the resort of lazy playwrights who don't have the patience to write a fully fleshed-out play. (Read "Who'll Win the Tonys...
Palin, soon-to-be-ex-Gov. Sarah • ability of to spout incomprehensible babble is undiminished by decision of to quit in a huff • Anderson Cooper isn't buying the inane excuses of the spokeswoman for • angry tweets of • David Letterman is still making fun of • eagerness of to get back to "slaying salmon" • efforts of to make people stop saying bad things about or they are going to get so sued by • excuse offered by for quitting is - as is so much of what passes the lips of - of questionable veracity • explanation...
Tough and in a Huff...
...grandmother would grumble whenever she found a spare penny around the house. She would scoop it up and huff...