Word: pits
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...it.When “A Chorus Line” works—and it does frequently work—it is not thanks to Noyer and Shields’ direction or production. It is thanks to individual cast members overcoming unremarkable choreography, boring staging, and a really awful pit orchestra by sheer force of personality. There are really great moments in what is generally a mess.“A Chorus Line,” with music by Marvin Hamlisch and a book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, originally opened on Broadway in 1975. The show takes place over...
...into exaggeration and caricature. For the most part, this works, as it is delivered with an acid wit and cynicism that meshes nicely with the characters’ disintegration, giving the play something of a train-wreck appeal of watching them dig themselves deeper and deeper into an emotional pit. All of the actors (save Steinemann, who maintains a glacial calm throughout) go off the deep end with aplomb. Especially good are Lloyd-Bollard, as the perpetually-angry newscaster Sian, and Renaud, as the flighty and emotionally fragile artist Wynne. When the play aims for genuine pathos, however, it falls...
...Nothing comes of this epistolary effort. Even O?Grady comes to realize that a pleasant little chat around some barbeque pit is not going to set things right. We come to realize, of course, that we are once again in the presence of evil?s banality. We also realize, naturally, that there is no redress for monstrousness of the kind he practiced. Psychopathic behavior of his kind is far beyond the realm of ordinary understanding, let alone forgiveness...
...Birhanu Worku, who cultivates half a hectare or so of potatoes and barley, was one of the first in Banja to build a pit latrine three years ago. It's a simple affair: a hole in the ground, 1 m across and 3 m deep, covered with a concrete slab and surrounded by mud walls, a thatched roof and a bamboo door. Outside the toilet is a plastic watering can, which Worku has jerry-rigged to dispense a trickle of water for flushing. His neighbors, he says, "came and asked me why I built it and how it worked...
...interviewed young women who say they feel so wanton wearing only a headscarf that they will adopt the niqab. Now even 6-year-olds are put into hijabs. Western culture - it is true - is wildly sexualized and lacking in restraint. But there are ways to avoid falling into that pit without withdrawing into the darkness of a niqab. The robe is a physical manifestation of the pernicious idea of women as carriers of original sin; it assumes that the sight of a cheek or a lock of hair turns Muslim men into predators. The niqab rejects human commonalities. The women...