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...little Miss Dee Meanor (John P. Blickstead ’06), has grown outgrown her years of stardom and will do anything to regain the limelight; her bowlegged, swastika-loving director, Jurgen Aregretzat (Phillips), has one passion in life—to reestablish Hitler’s regime; a mute silent-film actress (Sean R. Fredricks ‘07), pops up whenever secrets are being shared; Barry Dreasure (Michael B. Hoagland ’07) is a pirate bent on killing the great white shark (Toby W. Burns ’06) who wronged...
...either of them would be fine by me, but the race seems to be between Hoffman and Ledger. Hoffman's Capote is a stunt, a caricature, the kind Oscar often rewards, but it's also a great performance. Ledger, his character's emotions so internalized he's nearly made mute by his passion and guilt, would dominate any other year. But in the leading actor categories, I have to go with the Huffman-Hoffman ticket...
...beyond him. Composed with the deliberation of music or poetry, her groupings of bowls can limn the personal (Silence, 1995, where two pairs of figures tower above a silvery pool, either mute or deaf to each other) and the political (one can't help but read the queue of 23 moist-lipped vessels in Exodus II, 1996, as asylum seekers). Other still-life groups simply delight in their play of form (the rising and falling rhythm of Breath, 2000) and color (the enlightening journey of Fade, 2003). Her groups, which the artist keeps carefully documented in photographs, are growing...
...looks as eager as any of her classmates to blurt out an answer. But every time the teacher calls on her, Abby freezes. Her face tightens. She strains to respond. And even if an answer manages to get past her lips, her words are inaudible. She's effectively mute throughout the school day--even at recess, where the closest she will come to open communication is words whispered to a trusted girlfriend...
...masterful talent for economizing, cramming as much depth of character, symbolism and drama into eight pages as many conventional manga only manage in 200 pages. That he often does this with practically no dialogue is a testament to his skills as a visual storyteller. Frequently the main character remains mute until the last frame where he might rhetorically ask, "How could this have happened?" Or he has an existentialist insight, like "To survive in the crowd, you have to struggle alone...