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When the action shifts to his minimalist pad, where he surprises his lover in bed with a boyfriend, he caroms between Noel Coward worldliness and Edward Albee combat, hinting at suicide, half attempting murder. In earlier versions of the play, the bloody pathos of opera found a parallel: the abandoned man stabbed his lover, then held him in a last embrace. That ending felt arch. This one feels anticlimactic, void of release. So does the end of an affair, an event McNally chronicles with specific detail and authentic, universal pain...
...does Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza parallel South African apartheid...
...after the 1987 crash may have helped cushion last week's fall. In Chicago the Mercantile Exchange twice halted trading in S&P 500 futures contracts, which represent the stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 index. The automatic cutoffs, or "circuit breakers," slowed the contracts' drop. In 1987 parallel free falls in New York and Chicago, which are linked by computerized trading programs, had aggravated the collapse. But last week some Chicago traders claimed that the stoppages in futures trading restricted the ability of some investors to hedge their losses, forcing them to dump stocks and exacerbating the selling...
...hear a roaring, as if she had held seashells against her ears"), the moment echoes the heart-thudding scene between Scarlett O'Hara and Ashley Wilkes ("There ) was a low curious roaring sound in her ears as of seashells being held against them"). Yet despite a plethora of parallel passages, Alberoni denies she has ever read Mitchell's novel. By contrast, Deforges admits that she borrowed heavily from Gone With the Wind -- but only for the first 100 pages. At that point, says Deforges, she tired of the "literary game" and set off on her own tangent about her heroine...
...plays her loyalty and respect. Trying to puzzle out how she achieves such artless naturalness, fellow actors gather to scrutinize her work. Says writer-director David Hare, who starred Redgrave in his movie Wetherby: "She's the one they all watch. Vanessa has an access to her feelings without parallel. She is the least flustered, most completely focused actress; she barely needs to study a part...