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...role of a cheerfully dotty old woman as if it were her own personality. Thomas Derrah overacts at times, making Stanley’s conversational lines sound like a speech or sermon. His physical acting, however, is simply magnetic, especially in the second act as Stanley’s nervous breakdown becomes complete. Terence Rigby is the play’s “straight man,” whose dry wit and easygoing manner evolves into endearing confidence, culminating in his last line to Stanley: “Don’t let them tell you what...
...Allow me to introduce myself.? I?m a public radio commentator, a 42 year-old mini-van driving mother of two.? At the time of my firing - and I realize this may sound like a joke, a Saturday Night Live caricature of the nervous, twittering ladies of NPR but here goes . . . When fired for obscenity I was in the middle of a five-part series on knitting.? The kind of you do with yarn...
...certainly didn’t sense it, not really. I was nervous, nervous that Danis would stonewall the Crimson and force a Game 3, nervous that the call—it was the wrong one, by all accounts—would take the wind out of Harvard’s sails...
...scared out of mind the last few minutes of the game,” Miller said. “Brown was down by one, and that made me nervous...
Kerry's advisers call foreign policy his passion and sound almost nervous when they say it. The last President who let his commitment to foreign affairs divert his attention from domestic concerns found himself ousted by an Arkansas Governor who knew it was the economy, stupid. But as last week's furor over Bush's use of images from 9/11 reminded us, this election will probably be unlike any other in a long time. The stakes are so high, the emotions so raw, that it is possible to imagine a sustained and substantive argument over the U.S.'s role...