Word: slenderness
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What a pity that some of the best acting onstage today is going to be seen by so few people. And that such performances are in the service of so slender a vehicle as Vita & Virginia, now installed in off-Broadway's Union Square Theatre for an 18-week run. Vanessa Redgrave and Eileen Atkins bring to roaring life the two-character play created by Atkins from the letters Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf exchanged during their 18-year relationship. If their love affair (mostly of the heart and soul) was passionate, it was not very interesting -- at least...
...noisily Christian portion of the Virginia electorate is prepared to send a former felon to the Senate on the grounds that he never cheated on his wife. In Haiti, born-again ex-President Jimmy Carter invited torture master Raoul Cedras to teach Sunday school, apparently because his wife is slender and his shirts are well pressed. Everywhere, private virtue -- or the successful simulation of it -- seems to count more than public morality, and material wealth more than anything else. In the new, mellowed-out version of the old-time ethic, you can lie, steal and trample on the poor...
...Aristide is a slender reed on which to lean. No one is certain whether to trust his promises of a program that sounds rather conservative. He says he intends to decentralize Haiti's government, cut the army to about 1,500 people, reduce the bloated civil service, lower tariffs and increase imports of food and other supplies the nation cannot immediately produce for itself, , concentrate on building up the private sector and court private and foreign investment. Pursuing his theme of reconciliation, last week he promised the Haitian army -- that supposed gang of murderous thugs -- that far from seeking revenge...
...temperament: We are by ourselves in an absurd universe, compelled to act but bereft of any reasonable grounds for doing so. Camus seemed to embody the laconic stoicism of his works. He was reserved in public; in many of his photographs, he looked the way Camus should look, a slender, dark, intense Bogart type, a tough guy betrayed by sad eyes...
...Games) and bad (a dismal fifth-place finish at the '93 World Championships), Kerrigan has drawn on the unconditional love of two parents, two devoted older brothers and an extended family of aunts, uncles and cousins, who turn out at competitions to cheer her on. Blessed with long, slender limbs and a natural elegance, she also reaps the rewards of a photogenic beauty that last year won her standing as one of PEOPLE magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People in the World...