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...concerned. It was not even the headline the following day in the Boston Globe. Could Americans really be so self-interested to not care? Could we possibly have become so accustomed to such tragedies to have grown callous to them? Perhaps there was a time when it was somewhat excusable that Americans did not empathize with those affected by disasters of this nature—we hadn’t experienced such tragedy. But Sept. 11, 2001 should have changed all that. We know exactly what the Spanish are going through right now, and we should be going through...
...wailing drowned out parts of the dialogue. The inaudibility of certain lines, however, was remarkably irrelevant to the effect of the production; the mournful gesturing, particularly on the part of Hecuba, the Queen of Troy (Harvard employee Isabel del Carmen Quintana), expressed at least as much as the somewhat repetitive speeches...
...fact, while the size of the U.S. presence will shrink somewhat, from 120,000 to around 105,000, the U.S. military is hardly withdrawing. But the posture of U.S. troops in the country is a subject of debate. Critics say the Pentagon is pulling its military back too far in self-defense, leaving operating room for the insurgents. That seemed to be the view of the furious Shi'ites who pelted U.S. troops with shoes, bottles, metal pipes and stones when they showed up to help bomb victims last week...
...went on to win the race. But before he got caught up in sentiment for the steed, Darnielle gleefully interjected that even his victories were not enough to keep the horse from being sent out to pasture. Beyond simply entertaining, the tale clarified the song’s somewhat abstract lyrics. At times like this, the lyricist’s full gift for Homeristic story-telling became clear...
...defense of the line, “I can see your sadness” (I apparently have more invested in this debate than even I expected), you seem to forget its context. It was delivered by an immigrant worker whose imperfect English was intended to make it sound somewhat stilted, excusing any loss of impact derived therein. I present to you another line from Adaptation that single-handedly trumps any off-day Kaufman offerings, when Donald Kaufman describes the screenplay he’s working on: “So the killer flees on horseback with the girl, the cop?...