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...moments and hauntingly lucid in her moments of insanity. She makes the tale of shooting her husband sound as normal as going to the grocery--an effect which makes it only more disturbing, and more realistic. Babe's obsession with suicide makes her seem only marginally sane, yet the profound truths she uncovers in her wildest fits reveal her as the play's wisest character, a trait that Taylor might have glossed over had she not so thoroughly understood her character...
...former first lady Winnie Mandela -- is unlikely to be deemed politically or legally expedient. But its impact shouldn't be underestimated: "Everybody knew the process would be imperfect," says TIME South Africa correspondent Peter Hawthorne. "But the impact of revealing the dark secrets of the past has been profound -- nobody in South Africa has been unaffected by the evidence heard at the commission...
...however. The comedy of Bette and Boo is rather an obviously serious and sometimes clinical attempt to work through serious topics with large amounts of therapeutic laughter. The real majesty of Durang's technique is that in the middle of busting a communal gut, the audience simultaneously feels a profound need to cry. At the funniest moments, the audience cannot help but deeply sympathize with the profound desperation and despair of the characters...
...Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson this month begins the "National Outreach Tour" and appears in Vanity Fair magazine with the presidents of the Seven Sister colleges, professors and students of women's studies say there is a profound need to analyze the state of women at the close of the millennium--both around the world and at Harvard...
...honestly think in my soul, the reasons to not do this, the reasons to delay were so profound, that not delaying can only be seen as an issue for the President, that he simply wanted to stand up in Martha's Vineyard and say, `Terrorism is over, bin Laden is dead...