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Wendy Wasserstein, whose very name is a deadpan joke on Jewish assimilation into the cheerleader values of Middle America, writes about Jews and Wasps without a tincture of sitcom condescension, finding poignant similarities in perpendicular lives, giving just about every character equal time and a fair number of laughs. Director Gerald Gutierrez has mined the big, handsome virtues in this deceptively modest play, putting a shine on everything from the show tunes and rock standards to the voices on Janie's telephone-answering machine (including the desperate plaints of Meryl Streep, in her best and most hilarious performance...
...part the surprise simply comes from the announcement of a personalized death; two named and photographed victims in a war automatically draw more attention than statistical casualties. Then, too, there is something about the rhythm and character of their work: the white moving line of the automobile perpendicular to the guns, the pursuit of one profession bisecting another. There is the matter of their being journalists, who as cultural figures are always accorded a special (half revered, half resented) slot in the public mind, and of their being foreign correspondents in particular, with all the folklore glamour associated with that...
...will show you fear in a handful of dust," wrote T.S. Eliot. The towering set that vaults above and plummets below the stage of Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater shows us fear on the inscrutable face of a perpendicular wall of stone and ice, pockmarked by eons. The hand-held camera that scales Designer Ming Cho Lee's awesome set is the playgoer's eye, restored to a 20/20 vision of the power, mystery, majesty and menace of undomesticated nature...
...rather whimsical, and unsolicited, job application had run sort of perpendicular to the Board's vague inquiries as to whether anyone knew anyone who'd like to be an intern. I wasn't related to anybody in particular, and no one's guidance counselor had any prior reports on me. All these qualities made me the ideal conveyer of the collective "student viewpoint" on anything they happened to ask me about...
...successful execution of a new play in the team's repertoire--the "back set"--added in part to the team's early success. The play calls for the setter, who is facing perpendicular to the net, to receive the pass up from the back line, fake the set to the teammate she is facing, and, in fact, set up the spiker behind her in an effort to catch the other team off guard...