Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Campbell Scott's Hamlet is a microcosm of the production itself, as his desire to avenge his father's death is tamed by the play's genteel environment. Delivering lines with playful refinement, Scott's performance works best when he banters with Polonius (David Cromwell) or soundly rejects the love of Ophelia (Natacha Roi). But his passionate soliloquies fall flat, failing to tear the polite veneer from his countenance. His only way of communicating unbridled passion is with a hollow scream, which sounds insincere and empty...
THOUGH HARDLY THE LARGEST OF THE MCDOUGALS' headaches, in microcosm the Whitewater venture illustrated all the major trends troubling the McDougal empire. In 1983 no new lots had been sold. Because of all the interest payments, negative cash flow that year was nearly $51,000, all of it covered either by new borrowing or payments from McDougal or his various ventures. One lot was sold in 1984. Negative cash flow was over $20,000, all of it covered by McDougal. With more interest and principal payments due, 1985 was even worse. Only one lot was sold. Negative cash flow...
...Pepsi debate is something of a microcosm for PUCC's first year of existence on the council...
...going to fit in doing the laundry between dinner, "Friends" and writing a paper. Sometimes it is easy to blow our problems out of proportion, but it takes nothing more than reading the newspaper to realize that the environment in which we live is a microcosm of the real world...
While local issues are playing a small role in the debate, much of the race has become a microcosm of national themes...