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Most of Jimmy's unpleasantness is directed into torturing his well-bred wife Alison (Silje Nnand). Alison's beauty, grace and propriety are frustratingly unattainable to her husband, and she exacerbates the situation by ignoring his rantings. Normand masters a frenetic nervous tension that shows itself in everything she does, from a palsied hand to a tremulous voice. She portrays Alison's silent suffering exquisitely. As she stands at an ironing board in the opening scene, we are captivated by her penetrating eyes and intense concentration on her work. In her frightened, innocent loveliness, Normand's Alison truly...
...minor inconsistency that can be distracting to the audience is the use of English accents. For the first part of the play, McPartland and Marmor do not speak like Brits while Normand does. This is tolerable. Normand's accent suggests Alison's privileged upbringing, and the fact that Robe (as someone from a similar background) also speaks with a slight accent supports this. But the two women are unable to sustain their accents throughout, and the arrival of Alison's American-sounding father (Will Slaughter) on the scene confuses things...
...Tettrazini has ever been, and each place setting was equipped with four--count'em: one, two, three, four--forks. There was a seafood flatula stuffed with fat shrimp, and salad made from what seemed like pesky courtyard weeds. To cleanse the palate of residual flavors, there was a trou normand lime sorbet. Dining Services Czar Michael Berry made the rounds, and a string quartet made stately, playing pieces by classical composers. But the kicker was neither the food nor the ambience. The kicker was the wine. three kinds. A hearty but slightly sour red, a 1991 white, and something called...
Donziger and Roger Normand, the other trip organizer, said that the American military's restrictive press policy during the war has magnified the task ahead of the group...
...Charlotte Shelby, who not only wanted to protect her daughter from Taylor but also had a yen for him herself. According to this scenario, the ultimate stage mother locked up her love-hungry daughter on the night of the murder. Minter escaped and fled to Taylor's house. When Normand came by on a social visit, the girl hid upstairs in the bedroom. Mama arrived with her trusty .38 just in time to see her daughter descending the stairs. Assuming the worst, she opened fire. The case was never solved because Shelby used most of Minter's movie earnings, nearly...