Word: rip
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...mysteriously bound to his father's by more than their marriage, is just as puzzling. No adult will speak to him directly of the families' history, and his knowledge of the troubled family story emerges from half-heard whispers and details gleaned from emotional outbursts. His desire to rip through the fabric of dense half-truths and "cooked up" stories becomes nothing less than a quest, a constant crusade for answers inextricably linked with his gradual maturation...
Though the company billed its new Carmen as the next best thing to a rock concert, the results were closer in style to a rip-roaring Broadway show, an impression strengthened by the use of Bizet's original opera-comique version, in which the dialogue is spoken rather than sung, and a refreshingly colloquial English translation by Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof). Updated it was, but dumbed down it wasn't. Assaf made her dramatic points with crisp simplicity and no pandering whatsoever. No less direct was the Carmen of mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzman, a fire-eating singing actress...
Graham was far from the first dancer to rip off her toe shoes and break with the rigid conventions of 19th century ballet. America in the 1910s and '20s was full of young women (modern dance in the beginning was very much a women's movement) with similar notions. But it was her homegrown technique--the fierce pelvic contractions, the rugged "floor work" that startled those who took for granted that real dancers soared through the air--that caught on, becoming the cornerstone of postwar modern dance. Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Mark Morris--all are Graham's children...
Asked what has given him the most satisfaction about Larry Sanders, Shandling cites "the casting and the honesty of the acting." He is right to be proud. As Hank and Artie, Jeffrey Tambor and Rip Torn have been doing some of the best acting on television. When Tambor quietly boasts in one episode, "I've lost upward of 14 pounds," a whole life seems to support the line. Torn's Artie is an amazing creation, a veteran of an earlier, Chivas-fueled Hollywood generation who cajoles and bullies Larry but can look at him with a momentary expression of pure...
...glad he's not a lecher, though I'm somewhat disappointed--more than I should be. I decide not to brave the dining hall yet, since one a bite of food might rip this camisole rip wide open...