Word: seems
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...titled Antigone, but the real protagonist is the governor Creon. Bishop takes the role and plays it to the hilt. Her Creon is just this side of crazy: she is inflexible, imperial (ironically so considering she supports the Union and "liberty"), wrathful and utterly compelling. The other actors seem to feed off of her unreasonableness, engaging the viewers as they desperately attempt to get her to compromise. "A foe is never a friend, even in death," she declares. Although Antigone knows in advance the consequences of her actions, stating her loyalty to the dead and her willingness...
...There seem to me to be three questions to which we need answers...
Language and metaphor dominate Winterson's writing, which includes such well-received novels as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Sexing the Cherry and Written on the Body. Her storytelling, however, gets lost in tales that at times seem written by a poet forced that to write fiction. Revealingly her most stunning piece is titled "The poetics of Sex." In it says of her lover: "How she fats me. She plumps me, pats me, squeezes and feeds me. Feed me up with lust till I'm as fat as she is." Such language, with its musicality and carefree rhymes reads...
...That may not seem like a big deal, but people follow up on their referrals. That says a lot about [the service]," Reindl says...
...laughs in our faces. We are mortified. We tell him that I am writing an article about it, but he doesn't seem to believe us or even care. After more laughter at our expense, he finally directs...