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Through Gardner's witty alter ego, Shalhoub, the playwright evokes a more innocent -- and more malignant -- era, flavoring the immigrant struggle with the sour salt of Jewish proverbs: "Sleep faster, we need the pillow." Eddie sometimes goes on so long the play could be retitled Monologues with My Children. But there is not a weak spot in the large cast, sensitively directed by Daniel Sullivan. Margulies is a geriatric standout, and Hirsch gives the most uncompromising and indelible performance of his career. Producers are always searching for actor-proof roles. Here is something rarer: role-proof actors...
...about 4:20 a.m. on July 4, with five or six hard hand cracks, then a great, cavernous quiet. A visitor, sweaty in a winter sleeping bag, half-woke in his tent, wadded what turned out to be a loaf of six-grain bread under his head as a pillow and eased back to sleep. As he did, the drums started again, more softly: chunka-chunka-CHUNKA-chunka. They stopped for good an hour later, just before full light...
...beads. So when they inhaled, they drew in stale air that was low in oxygen. "You end up breathing back in what you've just breathed out," Thach explains. "All the oxygen gets used up." Adults have enough lung power to suck in sufficient oxygen through the pillow, but Kemp and Thach determined that babies could not. By testing rabbits that had the same lung size as infants, the pediatricians proved that rebreathing into the bead-filled cushions was fatal for babies. The two investigators also determined that any movement by the children to free themselves only buried their faces...
...prods discussion with questions and comments: "Why so many loops in the rope? You don't need that many to control an old woman . . . Why is she in the bathroom? It's a closed- in space -- is he after security, or is he secretive? And why is a pillow in there -- to muffle her or to make her comfortable for sex? . . . Were the cuts on the body made before or after she died? Did she die on him, and he's mad at her? . . . Are any of these cases related? . . . What kind of person are we looking...
...wives back home were being unfaithful. (One cuckolder was said to be Bart Simpson.) She has not been heard from since the bombing began. By and large, music tastes are fairly sedate. Since the fighting started, says program director Sergeant Major Bob Nelson, "it's like someone put a pillow on it; we got a lot of requests for soft and sentimental songs. When it heats up, we slow down." Army Private Brian Chavez, 18, of Wagner, Okla., worries about being out of touch. "There will be all new music when we go back," he moans. "There...