Word: resistible
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Marber and McDonagh resist the suggestion that they are part of a literary movement: "That makes it sound as though we all know each other and sit around in cafes all day chatting," says Marber. In fact they barely know one another. What really seems to bind these playwrights together, from the perspective of an outsider, is the absence from their work of any overt political agenda. These are not issue or idea plays (like, say, David Hare's Plenty or Caryl Churchill's Top Girls), though they speak seriously to a contemporary audience and reflect the world their authors...
...made a pass at her in the White House when she worked there in 1993, Kathleen Willey, whom he later appointed to the U.S.O. board of directors, said she is "outraged that she is being pulled into the Paula Jones case," has nothing of relevance to contribute and would resist any deposition. Willey added that she continues to have a very good relationship with the President. White House spokesman Mike McCurry was not amused: "I'm not going to assist news organizations in pursuing that story...
...educate his fans on the peculiarities of the Chinese judicial system, you're on the right track. Director Jon Avnet says that several Chinese judges and lawyers put themselves at risk to be consultants on the movie. "The catchphrase of the Chinese courts is 'Severity for those who resist,'" says Avnet, who got offered a lot of pirated copies of his last movie, Up Close and Personal, while in Beijing researching this one. "I'm lucky because I get to make a movie about China that the Chinese artists couldn...
...Broadway musical. A sitting-duck target for some pretty unmerciful snubbing (or just plain ignoring) by the magistral proponents of intellectualism and high art. And yet, for the critic who can't resist a good show or the damnably hummable tunes of a Rodgers or a Lloyd Webber, a really professionally staged musical is often a source of lively, if somewhat guilty, entertainment. So it is with the lavish production of the Kern-Hammerstein classic "Showboat" currently playing at the Wang Center through August...
This is an age in which both the Speaker of the House and the President of the United States cannot resist, in dramatic televised addresses, making pointed reference to their latest bereavement. This is an age in which the Vice President, in consecutive convention speeches, makes lachrymose use, first, of a son's accident, then of a sister's death. (Noted one mordant wit: At this rate, his wife had better not walk near any plateglass windows.) In such an age, we can use the example of a man who through four presidential terms dealt with the agony...