Word: marvelled
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...antiseptic procedure. It lacks the drama of electrocuting someone. One of the region's biggest tourist draws is Old Sparky, the original death chair, which sits behind glass at the Texas Prison Museum four blocks from the Big House. Visitors from around the world come to gawk and marvel at the gleaming oak contraption where 361 killers met their fate from...
Dearbhla Molloy and Elizabeth Marvel...
...focuses his rage on his peasant wife, the devoted Nora (Dearbhla Molloy), whom he married out of either propriety or love--the audience is never certain--and whom he has resented ever after as the locus and symbol of his failure. Their feisty daughter Sara (Elizabeth Marvel) resents Melody for living in the past and clinging to a tradition that makes him a fool in America, swindled by the Yankees, abusive to Nora, and hated by his patrons for his outdated gentlemanly airs...
This is, however, beautifully counterbalanced by the perceptive performances of Elizabeth Marvel and Dearbhla Molloy. Nora never falters in her love for Melody, or in her suffering for having left the Catholic Church to accommodate their early transgression which resulted in marriage. To the extent that Nora is the moral fulcrum of the play, Molloy creates a steady, understated and endearing character through lines which otherwise could be considered preachy. The real fireworks of the play, however, come from Marvel's portrayal of Sara, who is the audience's heroine and a metaphor for the future voice of America...
...engineering department's marvel of money preservation is an almost stereotypical professorial type: Tall, white-haired and distinguished, casually dressed and perched in the standard messy office of an academic...