Word: shaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They jabbed faintly at first; then one hit too hard; then the other. Finally they had to be pulled apart, having beaten each other to the point of exhaustion. After the fight, full of shame, they would not speak. What the white men had originally contended was so after all. The boys actually did hate each other. The lie became the truth...
...shame that Mayer was too busy trying to finish his script to spend more time rehearsing his actors, but--hell--I can sympathize with slow, thoughtful writers--this review was scheduled to run yesterday. Though the production is untidy and the play unfinished (Mayer might fill out his protagonist and tighten in particular the first act). Aladdin is an exhilarating reminder that theatrical magic is most wondrous when it is achieved without tricks...
...shame as a nation that we make the people of this small country--who want nothing more, it seems, than a government like that of their neighbor Nicaragua--continue to fight. Our complicity--as tax-payers, as voters--is overwhelming. Of late, though, it has become fashionable to praise that complicity--we are finally "getting over" the "Vietnam syndrome." We are ready to throw our weight around again...
...audience hardly has enough time to consider what a success has resulted from Sondheim's self-congratulatory musing. In the end, it didn't matter how El Cid achieved his greatness, and it doesn't seem to matter how Sondheim arrives at his. It seems a bit of a shame, though, that while some audiences enjoyed his talent when he first presented these songs, his earlier musicals have not achieved the popularity of Sondheim in repetition...
...bring on inexplicable and uncontrollable fits of derisive laughter from the Bushmen. Otherwise, they have won the respect of their South African officers. "They've taught me what survival means," says one. "For all their small stature, they can put some of our big stocky guys to shame." Says another:"I've been on patrols with those guys. With the Bushmen along, our chances of dying are very slight. They have incredible tenacity, patience and endurance. They've taught me to respect another race...