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...students about their Christmas plans and they are likely to a) look at you mournfully and elaborate on the uncooperative nature of their senior theses, b) sigh blissfully at the thought of sleeping off the residue of that last tutorial paper, c) launch into a 20-minute discourse on snow conditions at their favorite ski resorts, or d) blush and mumble something about a grandmother in Miami...
...know it has to be winter-not only is there snow on the ground (sometimes), but there aren't even any crews out cruising on the Charles. Where there were fleets in October there are now occasional chunks of ice (without coxswain) headed downstream. One would figure the crew jocks got wise and bagged it this time of year, since it's too cold to row anyway...
...tendency towards absurdism. Still, Beattie includes enough gentle humor in her presentation to keep you interested. You come to hope desperately for resolution, for an end to the emptiness and an advent of warmth. Beattie isn't liable to satisfy you (her favorite symbol for the human condition is snow, covering anybody's attempt to find happiness) but she'll keep you involved...
Rescue workers could only guess at the actual extent of devastation on the remote, snow-covered slopes 600 miles east of Ankara, though past experience with tremors in the earthquake-prone region has taught them to expect the worst. Last year a quake hit the area, leaving 3,000 dead. In 1939 another seismic catastrophe took 30,000 lives. This time more than 120 towns and villages were affected, some of them isolated by 8 in. of snow on the narrow mountain roads. In the settlement of Alikelle, only two people survived out of 70 families. In the town...
...suitor. Richard Price (as Lucentio's impersonating servant Tranio) effortlessly outwits better men. And John Cooper turns in a commanding performance as Grumio, Petruchio's spluttering servant. His attempt to unpeel layers and layers of clothing while telling the story of Petruchio's and Kate's trek through the snow, practically steals the production...