Word: parroting
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...dilemma is more than clear. Rosen's Kristine assumes the submissive role all too well. These characters are more caricatures than the souls Strindberg so desired. The play becomes increasingly farcical as it comes to its close--avoiding laughter when Jean severs the head of Miss Julie's dear parrot is nearly impossible. Kristine's manic obsession with cleanliness and church seems entirely removed from the play's intensity, embellishing her performance with unintended comic relief.But to its credit, though Strindberg's fervor transcends the actor's capabilities at the moment, the focus and preparation by cast and crew...
...While the law of the free market has become incontrovertible in post-Cold War Washington, the intelligence community is still prepared to throw out some observations that don't exactly parrot market orthodoxy. For one thing, they explicitly bemoan the loss of one of the key policy levers of the Cold War era - the targeted projection of U.S. economic power. If it weren't for the Marshall Plan, most of Western Europe would have gone communist at the end of World War II - at the ballot box. Plowing billions of dollars of aid and investment into Europe also created...
...Survival instincts are beginning to surface in small ways in the Senate. While their bosses parrot bipartisanism, top Senate aides are quietly reaching across the aisle. Administrative assistants for three GOP senators - Snowe, Jeffords and Chafee - sent out invitations to Democratic chiefs of staff to join them for an "AAs' Christmas Party" Thursday night in the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. "I've never gotten an invite like that before," says one startled Democratic AA. Other Democratic AA's are calling Republican AA's out of the blue to see if they...
...reminded of that grand old Yankee spinster who, when asked whether she regretted not having a husband, snapped, "I've got a parrot that swears, a stove that smokes and a cat that stays out nights--what do I want with a husband?" NANCY CAREY Benson...
Easter Sunday was just another day in paradise for James and Mary Murphy of Rochester, N.Y. They had come to the $250-a-night resort of Sipadan Island, off the east coast of Malaysia, to swim among the coral, turtles and parrot fish. But that evening, as they dined with the other tourists, six armed assailants turned up. Shouting "Move it, goddam, move it!" the intruders ordered everyone to swim to boats waiting offshore...