Word: plums
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Many parents, understandably, prefer to assume that their child is exceptional until proved otherwise. If little Susie picks up a violin, she's a sure candidate for Suzuki; if she gets the part of the Sugar Plum Fairy in the local production of The Nutcracker, make sure she watches her weight. Wetter says he sees an extraordinary number of bright young patients whose parents are paying for tutors in addition to private-school tuition to make sure their kids keep up in class--or get ahead. "We've lost the concept of well-rounded children because we're so focused...
Even on March 18, the last day before the arrival of federation police, six men armed with hammers and chisels and drinking plum brandy pounded their way into apartments in the building next door and began hauling furniture to a truck outside. This time, a contingent of French troops from the multinational Implementation Force arrived and sent them scattering out a rear door. After the troops left, though, the looters returned and finished the job, pausing for swigs from the brandy bottle. The Oprhals were dismayed by how little the ifor patrols had done to protect the neighborhood...
Frequent character transitions are necessary to pull off so many monologues, but this has the added affect of focussing attention on the actor as an actor and calling the character's credibility into question. Richard Mawe, Deena Mazer, Paula Plum and John P. Arnold each play fifteen people or more, many of whom are themselves performing their story. Clearly some characters are coloring the truth. Others are either delusional or simply lying. They want their memory to serve them and to protect them rather than hew to objectivity. The more deeply the actors dig into their characters the more...
...running the Bosnian war--Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Alija Izetbegovic, the President of Bosnia and Herzegovina. At times the ruthless Balkan bosses--especially Milosevic--probably saw something of themselves reflected in Holbrooke. He stroked their egos, he laughed at their jokes, he drank their plum brandy--Milosevic praised his skill as a "bulls------ artist." But Holbrooke was also tough. Once, when Izetbegovic was hesitating over a cease-fire agreement, he barked, "Don't play craps with your destiny. You'd better be ready to live with the consequences if you make the wrong gamble...
...Gorazde since 1992, those on board encountered a city that in little more than 36 months has been transformed from a 20th century industrial center to a medieval encampment. Dr. Alija Begovic, who runs the hospital, described how doctors have performed amputations with kitchen knives, anesthetized patients with plum brandy and transfused blood from their own veins...