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...perhaps the greatest strength of the play lay in its subtle mixture of comedy and insight. In an early scene, Cutmore-Scott meets his freshman roommate (Sniderman). Sniderman gives an over-the-top performance as he eagerly pressed Cutmore-Scott to “do” his British accent. It was a hilarious scene, but at the same time delicately pointed out the uniquely uncomfortable situation of meeting a roommate for the first time, as well as the often-ridiculous obsession that students have with foreign accents...
...back in such a way that he couldn’t get out of being pinned.“Obviously, it was disappointing,” Meltzer said, “but after that my focus shifted to qualifying for the nationals. I just wanted to focus what lay ahead and not what had just occurred.”Meltzer went on to face the same opponent that spoiled his chance at an EIWA title in the third-place bout. The match lasted 11 minutes before Meltzer finally persevered over Borshoff, 7-4, in the second tiebreaker. Also competing...
...excelled in postseason games. His most famous play with Bird was in the last five seconds of Game 5 of the 1987 Eastern Conference Championship against the Detroit Pistons, in which Bird whipped Johnson the ball after stealing a pass--and Johnson, off-balance, pushed aside an opponent to lay it up and win the game by a point. Immediately afterward, amid a crowd roaring his praises, Johnson searched for Bird to congratulate him, because, Johnson said, "he made the pass...
...Bainimarama, he's not showing it. "They want to bully the small nations of the Pacific," he says. "Downer's policy is to ensure there is weak government in Fiji so they can take advantage of it." If outsiders really want to help Fiji, he says, "they should just lay off. Stop attacking what we're trying to do here, because it's not going to make any difference to us." He relies instead on popular support, which, he claims, "is now at 95%. People are only now understanding what we've told them over the past three or four...
Deborah Eisenberg’s writing is so fluid and easy to read that it was not until I had finished each story that I realized how deeply entwined I had become with her characters and their experiences, or how much depth lay behind them. Like her previous works, Eisenberg’s latest collection of short stories, “Twilight of the Superheroes,” demonstrates her utter mastery of characterization and transcends petty provincialism, instead exploring complex relationships of all sorts and the various ways in which they intertwine and affect the individual. Though the characters...