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Emerson asked: "Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory?" Why haul around the dead past, a sackful of traumas? One answer is that sometimes it is not dead at all. Sometimes there are debts to be paid, or monsters to be exorcized. If they are not, you live in a haunted house...
...confronted with really, truly evil things, that there should be some kind of evil character waiting in the wings, responsible for these acts of malefaction-an Iago, or a Lady Macbeth, or a Richard III. And the surprise is, Fred just seems pathetic, self-deceived, ordinary. Is he truly monstrous, is he hiding something? Does he know full well what he's doing? Or is he a kind of self-deceived, vain, in many ways self-satisfied, moral fool...
Germakian dropped to Jason Garielson 12-0 on the strength of a monstrous seven-point first period...
...over and grimacing at the excruciating effort of relieving himself - well, the audience feels his pain.) Duncan, in his breakout role (after several supporting roles in films like Armageddon), succeeds in winning over the sympathies of the audience with an inspiring performance. John Coffey is a walking paradox - his monstrous frame is capable of flattening a man, and yet he is afraid of the dark. Using his imposing physical presence, Duncan illustrates this juxtaposition while communicating the integrity that defines his character - a nave innocence contrasted with a keenly insightful spirit and a loving soul. In Edgecomb's eyes, this...
...theatrics were nearly as entertaining as Sterling P. A. Darling's '01 grinning face. Poor Fentrice P. Driskell '01 kept having to speak after Drefyus' impassioned, pun-filled, often nonsensical monologues. But one senses that Dreyfus might be hiding something. Something big. Something monstrous...