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...Chinese company's "it's just business" approach won't mute the deal's critics in Washington. To them, a takeover of Maytag is one thing--"We don't go to war over washing machines," said Republican Congressman Richard Pombo of California--but energy is a different story. With the Chinese government subsidizing the deal--CNOOC's parent company, wholly owned by the state, will give it an $8.5 billion, 30-year loan at just 3.5% interest--cries of predatory financing are inevitable. So too are complaints (accurate enough) that there is little chance a Western oil major could...
...happy endings and especially the mesmeric visual imagery are Ciulei's own. From the first moment, this Dream shows itself to be more about grim realities and revelatory nightmares. The captive Amazon Queen Hippolyta (Lorraine Toussaint), garbed as a soldier and coiffed with a Grace Jones-style Mohawk, stands mute yet defiant as the guards of Duke Theseus (Gary Reineke) surround her. They tear off her uniform and toss it onto a fire, revealing her torso clad in a confining, seductive undergarment: she is being turned from a woman into a girl. Throughout the play, Hippolyta's fury abates...
...while fully clothed, even when dressed in tuxedo or ballgown. Kissing is, among other things, a subtle and civilized medium of expression. It is a preliminary and surrogate for sex, an enticement that is also provisional. Kissing is a promise that preserves the right of refusal. A kiss is mute, and highly articulate. It involves a brief fusion of two heads, the head being the residence of mind and soul. The mouth is simultaneously the front office of language and of hunger. The kiss is a wordless articulation of desires whose object lies in the future, and somewhat...
While I was mute, I became a better listener. But mainly I appreciated wonderful things that could be said. I still read the Dylan Thomas poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" every night before I go onstage. I know it by heart now. In the last lines I see a tribute to my father, who's still with us: "And you, my father, there on the sad height,/ Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray." --As told to Kate Novack
...Gray harbors any resentment towards the Faculty, if she has any opinion at all about the recent fracas, she isn’t saying. Neither, for that matter, are her colleagues on the board. Corporation members, notoriously secretive but not clinically mute, ignored repeated e-mails and calls and to their offices, homes, and cell phones over the past three weeks. And a protracted effort to coordinate an interview with Houghton through the Harvard News Office ultimately proved fruitless...