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Most impressive about this production is the depth of the cast and the superbly understated direction from Travis and assistants. Nearly every aspect of Miller's potent script, major and subtle, has not only been captured but reinvigorated with a freshness that cannot help but echo its modern and contemporary parallels. Miller showed that Salem's witch hunts described the anatomy of McCarthyism in the late 40s and early 50s to the great dismay of his audiences. Today, instead of McCarthy's right-wing purges, an illiberal but leftist politics, sexual and otherwise, elicits similar dismay. Whatever other parallels come...
...germ of Danforth's dilemma is more potent today than when Miller wrote the play in 1953. Conviction and acquittal are reached solely on the basis of personal testimony, character witness, and most importantly, the social climate which dictates the popular mood under which judgments are reached. Walling effectively draws Abigail as malicious and manipulative, playing with her power as she would a dumb...
Against Wesleyan, the Crimson unleashed a potent, balanced offense and managed to keep Wesleyan's star player, a former member of the U.S. junior national team, under wraps, en route to a nine-point...
Sports movies could be much more than that. Sport, after all, makes for potent drama, brimming with passion and fear. It is a stage on which winners, who are sometimes villains, and losers, who are sometimes heroes, are clearly defined at the climax. It creates a clash of strong figures engaged in a recreation as elemental as love or war, and with just as much foreplay, anxiety, strategy, abrasion and betrayal. In The Program, one of the few movies to offer clear-eyed criticism of modern athletics, the players psych themselves up for a game by spitting in each other...
...group of prominent Catholic and evangelical Protestant leaders has pledged to reduce theological infighting, stop aggressively proselytizing each other's followers and cooperate on politically potent matters where their views converge, such as opposition to abortion...