Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspension comes easily when Alice is imaginatively introduced at tea. The players move in slow motion, and Mrs. Lidell (China Forbes) frequently breaks into random song about the nitty-gritties of the ceremony. The scene is clever and successful--a strong opening for a first act that later drags...
...suspension is hard-pressed in a scene called "A Pool of Tears and the Caucus Race," which has little relevance to the plot and seems to be no more than an opportunity to make gratuitous, hackneyed political jokes...
...other words, Radcliffe's drift out of the undergraduate scene and towards greater prominence on the graduate and post-graduate study level could make it a stronger institution in the future...
...typical boot camp is the Al Burruss Correctional Training Center in Forsyth, Ga., where 150 inmates are housed in two-level, spartan, modern facilities. A scene one recent morning: correctional officer Eddie Cash greets burglar Robert Parker and three other new inmates with a stream of profane abuse...
...exploits are subordinated to the old man's: his struggles to sustain his clan and make sure that his daughters find suitable (meaning Greek) husbands. Gatzoyiannis' death at age 90 provides a classic resolution. Surrounded by his children and grandchildren, he drifts off on old memories. It is a scene that evokes Chekhov and his observation that "any idiot can face a crisis. It is this day-to-day living that wears...