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Gore was like a death-row inmate walking the long green mile--and getting a temporary stay of execution right outside the death chamber. It was almost poetic that the reprieve came from the seven state supreme-court justices, six of them Democrats, who have been wrangling with Governor Jeb Bush this year--over capital punishment. Within two hours of the court's decision, the Vice President got more good news. The canvassing board in Miami-Dade County decided to begin a hand recount of its 654,000 votes. And a federal appeals court in Atlanta rejected Bush's plea...
...E.Y.D. shook his head. "I don't feel good at all about losing the White House." The W.O.D. smiled benignly. "Look at it this way, Son--poetic justice. If we had told Bubba Bill two years ago that he had let us down, that it was time to pack his bags, we'd have had Al Gore in the White House with all of Clinton's record and none of his baggage. Instead, we all rallied around him--and Gore paid the price...
...poetic end to Florida's vote crisis would bring the weirdness full circle, to another of our recent turns in the world spotlight. Don't be shocked if the entire presidential election shakes down to a single vote--an overseas ballot from Havana, bearing the childlike signature of one E. Gonzalez...
...impatience becomes endearing when directed at her impossible customers, like Madame Buisse, who struts around Paris in nothing but a trenchcoat which she removes whenever possible. When a young French hooligan solicits Marie (pretty, seeing the widower) for "the finishing touches," Angele bluntly shows him to the visually poetic door. "I speak to be heard," she replies to Marie's shock at her language. This is one of the lines i remember verbatim...
Admittedly, the pace of the second act slows somewhat with the incorporation of the two additional characters and the plot complications they provide. In part, this is due to the nature of the script. Yew includes several poetic monologues which, though eloquently written and sincerely delivered, do not cover a lot of new ground. On the whole, the best moments of A Language of Their Own come not when the characters elegize to the audience over the successes and failures of communication with each other, but when they literally establish (and at times destroy) an intimate and mutual working language...