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...sense the actors struggling to make this material work. Often they seem to resort to a technique of breathless delivery leading up to a climactic outburst, which is then followed by a quiet philosophical one-liner or two. This boiling-tea-pot method has great effects the first few times--Ray's march on the table, Dora's astonishing tirade on a swing--but can later get almost rhythmically repetitive. When Dora throws a tray to the ground suddenly after a discussion with her daughter, we are no longer shocked--there have been too many outbursts already...
...bottom of the seventh, senior Dennis Doble batted in junior Peter Albers with a sinking liner past first base. The second run of the inning came when Doble was batted in by freshman Peter Woodfork...
...diplomatic and trade relations. But Israel is willing to return the Golan territory only slice by slice, testing at each stage to see if the peace is real. Given those unsatisfactory terms, Assad may have decided that it makes no difference whether Peres the peacemaker or Netanyahu the hard-liner is in office in Jerusalem. "Syrians were very hopeful that Peres would take a big step," says Ibrahim Hamidi, a Damascus-based journalist. "Either Peres couldn't do it or he didn't want to. He hasn't advanced the peace process." Assad appears ready to wait...
...staying out of this conflict," says McGeary. "They are not putting pressure on Israel to curtail its military activities, hoping that the attacks will bolster Peres' popularity and secure his reelection." Adding to the volatility of the situation, McGeary says, is that Syria would like to see hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu, who is unlikely to pursue a peace agreement, replace Peres. "The Syrians have been under Western pressure to deliver peace and have been stalling in the negotiations. Hafez al Assad is not ready for a comprehensive peace, which would entail opening up Syrian borders to trade and tourism. Assad...
...thinking, for instance, of an actor who showed up wearing a shiny silver garment that peeked out from what looked like the uniform of a cabin boy on an ocean liner. Or one who combined an open-neck shirt of the sort worn by Coca-Cola deliverymen with what appeared to be a tuxedo jacket owned by a much larger man in 1938. In this country, fear of being ridiculed by high school buddies is about the only governor we have left on the behavior of the celebrated; around Oscar night every year, I feel even that slipping away...