Word: simmerings
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...witches' bouillabaisse? Snow White's stepmother was Apple Annie with a grudge, and Macbeth's Weird Sisters were the sous-chefs of Destiny. If a woman's place is at the stove, then it is there she spent millenniums perfecting her potions. She let her power simmer over a low flame; then she served up the concoction, a work of art from the hearth, to charm those who would love her and poison those who would enslave...
Anna Christie has just that simmer and boil. A waterfront fable about a Swedish whore with a heart of gold, this 1921 sea wheeze contains a corrosive third-act face-off that helped O'Neill win the second of his four Pulitzer Prizes. Yet the play was criticized so widely for its optimistic ending -- unthinkable in high drama, where everyone must suffer, especially the audience -- that O'Neill felt obliged to declare he was misunderstood. In fact, he had been found out: without the scaffolding of tragedy, his stagecraft was exposed as ramshackle, his creatures as puppets. Though producers drag...
...rhetoric is suspect, however, since the warlords' rivalries simmer on. Ali Mahdi blames continuing violence along the green line on looters from Aidid's sector. He also charges Aidid with having started the civil war that has killed tens of thousands and left Mogadishu in ruins. Because Aidid is a military officer, Ali Mahdi argues, he should be disqualified as a possible future leader of the country. "We do not want another general in charge of Somalia," he says, referring to Mohammed Siad Barre, whose corrupt, quasi- Marxist regime was overthrown in January 1991 after Ali Mahdi, Aidid and others...
Otherwise, Buchanan continues to simmer: he vowed to support the party nominee this fall and ended his feud with G.O.P. chairman Rich Bond when he said, "George Bush is entitled to have the chairman he wants...
Since then the Northern and Southern wings of the church have merged, but liberal-conservative differences have continued to simmer. This year's controversial 200-page morality report, Keeping Body and Soul Together, emanated from an official study committee under the Rev. John Carey, religion chair at Agnes Scott College in Georgia. Two members quit early, and one raised charges that the panel was stacked with liberals...