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...that between Rosaleen and Lily, could have been explored further. Although the movie reads as a watered-down version of “The Color Purple,” you can excuse “The Simple Life of Bees” for its lack of complexity and instead sit back and appreciate the simplicity of the lessons, the vibrant characters, and the pure and sweet story that nowadays seems like such an anomaly...
...parents religious faith: "To say my parents were devout Catholics is like saying the sun runs a little hot...One of their earliest dates was Mass followed by a rosary. As a kid hearing my mother tell the story for the umpteenth time, I could only sit, mouth agape, in something approaching mortification, thinking, Oh my God, I have the squarest parents in the universe...
This isn't the first crisis London has lived through, and it won't be the last. At the Guildhall, which is where the City administration is based, policy head Stuart Fraser talks about his 45 years of experience there and says, "You just have to sit it out. It recovers." But he acknowledges that "it's a painful process, and we are only at the beginning." The impact won't be felt across the board. Barring a financial cataclysm, London will retain its position as Europe's preeminent financial center. Some wealth management may migrate to Singapore or Dubai...
...safe to say American playwrights have never before been so obsessed with a war, at least while we're still in the middle of fighting it. The country was too busy trying to win World War II (and too unified in support of the war) to sit through many plays about it. Even the last war that dramatically divided the nation, Vietnam, got far less attention onstage; with antiwar protests more urgent and impassioned (thanks largely to the draft), artistic comment took a backseat to political action. David Rabe, author of a memorable trilogy based on his combat experiences...
...more exhausting than evocative. Passages like the following, from a British merchant fluent in the hodge-podge speech of Far Eastern port towns, confuse and distract rather than educate: “Now there was another chuckmuck sight for you! Rows of cursies for the sahibs and mems to sit on. Sittringies and tuckiers for the natives. The baboos puffing at their hubble-bubbles and the sahibs lighting their Sumatra buncuses. Cunchunees whirling and ticky-taw boys beating their tobblers...” And so it goes for an entire page. The jerks from one end of the linguistic spectrum...