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...Miranda, progressing from spoiled brat at the opening to young woman in love by the end. Unfortunately, Swanson fails to reign in some of his actors’ more wild inclinations. John Kuntz’s Trinculo, dressed in what appears to be a cross between a patchwork quilt and an argyle sweater, is especially over the top. When, on encountering the sleeping Calaban, he says to the audience, “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows,” his raised eyebrow is not remotely necessary. This is simply one example where the play tries too hard...
...more deliberate fashion. The contrast creates tension between the natural and the constructed: books casually line the shelves of Davey’s study in some photographs, while others feature books by Sartre and Rilke next to rolls of film or Chekhov and Cheever on a flowered quilt. This latter category of photographs seems trite: the objects are robbed of their aesthetic autonomy as Davey manipulates them for some “unambiguously productive” purpose. People are rarely the subject of Davey’s pieces, with the occasional exception of hands holding a steak bone or feet...
...Tornado that hit Greensburg on May 4 took its time, rolling up Main Street like it was on a Sunday stroll to church. Ron Shank, owner of the Kansas town's General Motors dealership, hid with his wife beneath a quilt in their basement, but they heard the storm rip their home from its foundations. Marvin George, a pastor at the Baptist church, took shelter in his closet. "We just knelt and prayed," he says. "I wasn't scared until the next morning, when I saw the carnage...
...tornado that hit Greensburg on May 4 took its time, rolling up Main Street like it was on a Sunday walk to church. Ron Shank, the owner of the Kansas town's only General Motors dealership, hid with his wife beneath a quilt in the basement, but they heard the storm rip their home from its foundations. Marvin George, a pastor at the Baptist church, sheltered in his closet. "We just knelt and prayed," he says. "I wasn't scared until the next morning, when I saw the carnage...
...people know you have people backing you up whether you’re queer or straight.” By the end of the event, about 125 supporters had written their names on brightly colored index cards, which were taped together to form a quilt. The quilt, the centerpiece of yesterday’s celebration, was modeled after the NAMES Project Foundation’s AIDS Memorial Quilt, which was unveiled 20 years ago. “Normally we just have people sign a paper, but we wanted something powerful,” said BGLTSA community chair Michelle C. Kellaway...