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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...
...Ohlmeyer, a friend of Simpson's who had visited him regularly in jail. NBC News president Andrew Lack worked out ground rules for the interview with Simpson--no questions were to be off limits--and picked Couric and Brokaw to do the questioning. One passed-over aspirant for the plum assignment, Bryant Gumbel (Couric's Today co-anchor and another friend of Simpson's), took the rejection hard; he didn't show up at work the rest of the week...
YOUR ARTICLE ON THE EXPLORATION OF the ocean bottom correctly describes man's continuous quest to seek out the last frontier. However, before we get to the center of this scientific plum, the deep ocean, there is a tremendous amount to do. There is so much ocean (it covers 75% of the earth's surface) but so little knowledge. And the costs of acquiring that knowledge are great and often individually insurmountable. The only way to solve that quandary is by sharing opportunity, costs and benefits, something neither scientists nor government agencies have been prone to do in the past...