Word: play-act
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Perhaps young witnesses' greatest handicap is their limited vocabularies. In sexual abuse cases, lawyers employ a new kind of visual aid: dolls with sex organs. Using a pair of dolls, a witness can play-act what happened. Jurors in Red Wing, Minn., found this tactic thoroughly convincing in the prosecution a year ago of James Cermak, 27, for sexually abusing ten children. After four of them used dolls to show what Cermak had done to them, he was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison...
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Apart from the overtones of demi-semi-Hemingway in this creed, the play casts doubt on the joy of life that it rather self-consciously preaches ("use all five senses every day"). To treat life as a branch of esthetics is to observe one's responses to it, rather than engage spontaneously in it, to play-act rather than act, or play. When Wertenbaker and his wife Lael (Olivia de Havilland) make love, he asks for a morning-after review. "Miraculous, as always," she replies, making two people who believe...
...small businessman in Glasgow. Until last week her career has been much like that of most other young actresses. As a little girl she always hogged the starring roles in re-enactments of movies; as a teen-ager she met stern opposition from her parents when she wanted to play-act for keeps. Her tribulations as a typist were anesthetized by amateur theatricals; as soon as she saved a little money she fled to London for "the most terrifying six months of my life"-25 shillings a week and job-hunting through the blitz...