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...Luchini believes that the audience plays an essential role in creating the special music of the theater. "I work with my public to find the right note," he says. "I'm like someone who is tuning an instrument. If they help me, we arrive at the truth. If they don't, I get angry." Nor does his interplay with the public end with the final line of text. On a good night, a sweat-drenched Luchini will return after the curtain calls and launch into a so-called prolongation - an improvised monologue in which he extols Céline...
...never apologize" is a dullard's policy. The apology - one of the more creative forms of human insincerity - has a thousand inflections and subtle uses. It may, for example, be employed as a splendid instrument of reversal. Remember when Bill Clinton went through his apologizing phase? After a time, we wanted to plead with him to make up with Monica and resume the behavior for which he was begging forgiveness - anything to shut...
...name suggests peace, calm, harmony. A sort of Buddhist New York, so good they named it nice. But to those who have visited, the South Korean capital will forever conjure up images of smog, traffic and crowds. If Seoul has a song, it is played on that ubiquitous instrument of sonic torture, the jackhammer. Home to 10.8 million people, which by some estimates makes it the world's fifth largest city, Seoul could scarcely be called a haven of serenity. Or could...
Machine-gun fire raked down the passenger aisle and into the cockpit, wrecking part of the instrument panel. Bullets tore into the back of the plane's engineer as he tried to help the two pilots get the shuddering plane under control; he died on the spot. Another blast killed a stewardess. Barely two minutes after the attack began, Blown wrestled the burning DC-4 onto the ocean surface. Miraculously, a dinghy appeared among the debris. Nine survivors struggled aboard. As rescue planes alerted by Blown's Mayday message began gathering, the Chinese government warned colonial Hong Kong's British...
...well the students performed once they were on campus. A second analysis found that the SAT accounted at most for just 10% of each admissions decision. Says Jane Brown, the school's vice president for enrollment and college relations: "We concluded that the SAT was just a blunt instrument which doesn't help us cut to the core of who a student...