Word: stantons
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...today's voice," the play seems unable to choose between the Biblical tradition and its desire to modernize that tradition. Original quotes from the Bible are used along with modern phrases and slang, creating a sharp and disorienting contrast. When Eve (Naava Piatka) shouts at the dying Adam (Michael Stanton), "We had something real here--this was love!" she seems more like a Danielle Steel heroine than the mother of humanity. Ironically, despite its intention to make the Biblical story more acceptable to the modern viewer, "Genesis of Genesis" implies that the first book of the Bible has no relevance...
...since Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, published in 1946. Narrated in the voice of Stephanopoulos-clone Henry Burton (a tip of the hat to Warren's Jack Burden?), the novel captures with eerie precision the psychological bonds between the Clintonesque candidate (hyperambitious Southern Governor Jack Stanton) and his most indispensable adviser. Here is Burton, who is portrayed as the grandson of a Martin Luther King-like civil rights martyr, describing his duties for the Governor...
...novel, the candidate, Clinton/Stanton, is priapic beyond even the wildest imaginings of the American Spectator. Clinton bashers will treasure the author's rendition of how Susan Stanton (Hillary) reacts to the news that Cashmere McLeod (Gennifer Flowers) had her husband on tape: "Susan hauled off and slapped him right across the face. It was a perfect shot, a resonant splat--God, she was even good at that...
...federal judge has ordered PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat to give a deposition in a lawsuit concerning the 1985 slaying of an American aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton gave Arafat until January 12 to give his deposition, and said the PLO could be held liable if he does not cooperate in the suit. A New Jersey travel agency filed the lawsuit, which blames a PLO faction for the 3-day hijacking of the Achille Lauro and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound elderly man, whom terrorists threw into the sea off Egypt...
There were no injuries, according to Stanton...