Word: slighted
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...just wanted to point out one slight geographical oopsie in the post, which includes this interesting line: “Friday nights’ internationally themed menus will also take us to new places (and some of your favorite cuisines), starting with the warming Carribean [sic] on Friday night, and then travelling to China on Feb. 5, Italy on Feb. 12, and Texas...
...whole new comical meaning when set to music. In one scene, for instance, a Sarah Palin look-alike belts, "I'm a pit bull!" while surrounded by scantily clad go-go dancers. In another, John McCain performs a rock song called "See You in November" with an ever-so-slight German accent. The Obama character, meanwhile, sings excerpts from the candidate's actual speeches while backed by the "Yes we can!" shouts of a gospel choir...
...work to be done. "It's a strange claim because she isn't in the closet," he says. "It shows that the media doesn't really know how to handle gay politicians." Perhaps. But only in Iceland could overlooking the Prime Minister's sexual orientation be taken as a slight. In many other parts of the world, that would count as a victory. - With reporting by Stephanie Kirchner / Berlin and Gaëlle Faure and Tara Kelly / London
Like most of Mamet's plays, Race is a relatively slight affair: three scenes, four characters, one unnecessary intermission. It opens with two principals of a law firm, one white (James Spader) and one black (David Alan Grier), quizzing a prospective client (Richard Thomas) who has been charged with raping a young black woman. In Scene 1 the lawyers badger him mercilessly, scoffing at his claims of innocence, dismissing his naive hopes that the legal system might exonerate him. By Scene 2, however, the white lawyer has done a nifty 180 (and managed to negate virtually all of his Scene...