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...more, determinedly theatrical approach. Instead of wires and pulleys or complicated stage effects to simulate the undersea life, she simply equips her fishy characters with wheelies, which enable them, when they rock back on their heels, to glide across the stage with an ease that nicely approximates aquatic movement. And for the couple of times when characters actually do float - swimming up to the surface or sinking to the ocean floor - the effort is largely hidden, the effect breathtaking...
...only as far as it goes. Survival of a species is a ruthless and reductionist matter, but if staying alive were truly all it was about, might we not have arrived at ways to do it without joy-as we could have developed language without literature, rhythm without song, movement without dance? Romance may be nothing more than reproductive filigree, a bit of decoration that makes us want to perpetuate the species and ensures that we do it right. But nothing could convince a person in love that there isn't something more at work-and the fact is, none...
...economic powerhouse in the region, is now descending into havoc. It is increasingly clear that opposition party leaders are instigating the violence in spite of their public statements advocating peaceful protest. It is Odinga’s imperative to ensure that supporters of his party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), do not continue to use violence By provoking anger, Odinga and his cohorts only embolden the government’s position when it prevents Odinga’s supporters from gathering in mass because those protests present the risk of large-scale massacres. Free speech is an important right...
...addition to the unspoken but strongly suggested parallel between the anti-war themes of “The Trojan War Will Not Take Place!” and the current anti-Iraq War movement in the United States, the play also provoked discourse on smaller, more personal questions. The worldly women of Troy addressed issues of women’s place in society by arguing that Helen only has power because men have made her a symbol and linked their honor to her “purity.” A final confrontation between Ulysses (Augustine “Gus?...
...this piece of legislation has largely been welcomed. "It's the best law they've passed so far," says Ahmed Hashim Mohammad, an Iraqi army captain-turned-insurgent who now works on the U.S. payroll as a checkpoint leader in a neighborhood watch, part of the Sunni "awakening movement" that has been key to restoring order in al-Qaeda-infested areas...