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...some other 28-year-olds are interested in beer and video games, Foer is interested in the Truth with a capital T, and he's not afraid to go for all the big themes at once. In Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Foer takes on death, love, sex, pain, war and Sept...
...raping Mai, citing a lack of evidence and a poor investigation by the prosecution. Her lawyer, Rashid Rehman, claimed that the investigators had been pressured by the Mastoi. Five of the accused walked free while the other had his sentence commuted to life in prison. "I am in pain," Mai said afterward. "I will ask my lawyer to challenge the decision." Human-rights groups have condemned the ruling: I.A. Rehman, director of the Independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, says the trial "brought disgrace to Pakistan's justice system...
...Virginia Woolf? ), but the humor is never without an edge. When A querulously issues contradictory demands, prompting her nurse to comically scramble in exasperation, audience members are uncomfortably aware that their laughter is derived from an old woman’s senility. The thin line between humor and pain that Women treads is on full display at the end of Act One, when A delivers an anecdote about her husband that veers from amusing to uncomfortable to simply tragic, all within the span of a couple minutes...
...instance, the troubling interaction of A with herself at different stages takes place within her head as she lies comatose. Her past selves bring her no comfort; C is horrified at what she has become, and B is casually cruel to both. For Albee, clearly, memories counter-intuitively bring pain rather than comfort...
...struggles with their burdens of anger and recrimination. In particular, Ellen C. Quigley ’07 (A) admirably projects the mannerisms and emotional crisis of old age through the heavy layers of old-woman makeup and mannerisms. Laurel T. Holland ’06, as B, portrays simultaneous pain and cruelty without compromising her character’s hard exterior. Although Michelle A. Chaney ’05 (C) seems to have less to do, since her character largely serves as the catalyst for the revelations of the other two, she makes the most of her character...