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...Ways and Means Committee chair, Thomas M. Finnerman (D-Mattapan), said at the hearing's outset that there are "serious questions that need to be answered...
Many scientists say the project could have beensaved if the government had established a closerpartnership with foreign countries, especiallyJapan. Instead, from the outset, the U.S.government decided that the project would besolely American...
...After ranging from a Russian babushka to Barbra Streisand, he settles down as the matronly, English accented Euphegenia Doubtfire, and the movie's triumph is that Williams is convincing in this role. While it is still rather odd that Miranda experiences deja vu only at the film's outset, and the children never suspect him, the complete transformation that Williams undergoes makes it much easier to suspend disbelief...
This nightmare situation, not exactly ripped from the headlines but a plausible extension of them, befalls a young woman at the outset of Keely and Du, perhaps the most important and surely the most harrowing American play produced outside New York City this year. It debuted briefly at Actors Theatre of Louisville's annual new play festival in March, and the same production opened a five-week run last week at Connecticut's Hartford Stage Company. Other stagings have been seen at the Dublin Festival and, currently, in Washington, and one is planned at Houston's Alley Theatre...
What sets her well apart from the ruck of writers is the lash and sting of her language. She can summon ferocity without effort, can smilingly backhand reader or character into a tumbled heap. But she uses this violent gift in a curiously selective way. At the outset of The Shipping News, she demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been...