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...reads, and her bookcase shows some Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson. In deference to modernity, she even does some sociology. Then when a member of my obsessive sex who simple-heartedly looks to business school via economics seeks to make headway with her, she starts educating him--needless to say, a lifelong process...
Traditionalist graduate boards are yet another barrier to admitting women to the clubs. The alumni generally have control over the clubhouses, and so have the final word on any major policy questions. Needless to say, the alumni tend to be a bit less progressive than their progeny...
Considering that this show runs for a grueling three hours, such fatigue is not surprising. This length is needless and avoidable. Director Cabranes-Grant should have kept the dialogue clipping along. Instead, the actors tend to linger over scenes of slapstick buffoonery. Both acts take an inordinately long time getting to the first line of dialogue, and the first act itself takes two hours to complete. If the pace of the play had been consistently faster, pauses would have contrasted more effectively and produced a stronger production...
...speak of the needless slaughter of Iraqi troops on the Basra road, but then say that the United States left just enough of Iraq's military intact to cause the revolt to fail, as if it were some conspiracy. Did we go too far or not far enough? Make up your mind. By the way, when you're dodging ground fire in an Apache helicopter, you don't circle enemy tanks until every soldier has left his vehicle. How much time does it take for an Iraqi soldier to leave his vehicle anyway...
...what a text! It espoused "traditional values." I don't mean to be difficult, but isn't that rather vague? After all, it is traditional for the Indians, er, excuse me, Native Americans, to value community ownership of land. Is that what I am supposed to live by? Needless to say, I was unimpressed...