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...direction fully complements the strength of their cast. The play is excellently paced, with varying moments of noisy dissension, tense silence, and light humor. They make very good use of the space in the Ex, ensuring that the uninteresting picture of 12 jurors seated around a table rarely remains static for long. The set starts out as an orderly room, yellow walls lit by the sidelights streaming through stage windows, with a table and chairs neatly in the center. By the end of the play, however, the lights have dimmed, the chairs are in disarray, and a switchblade is left...
...double martinis, pretty much died out with Nick and Nora Charles 60 years ago. Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the crime caper with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, is about as close as you could come lately, and they kept trying to kill each other. Maybe wedded happiness is considered static, undramatic, a minuet of compromises. It could also be that depicting the satisfaction of people over 30 just doesn't appeal to the audience demographic; the young may think that anyone who's settled for living with someone else is either miserable or deserves to be. Whatever the reason, connubial bliss...
...switched from one Protestant denomination to another; if it did, the number would jump to 44%. Says Greg Smith, one of the main researchers for the "Landscape" data, churn applies across the board. "There's no group that is simply winning or simply losing," he says. "Nothing is static. Every group is simultaneously winning and losing...
...some groups, their relatively steady number of adherents over the years hides a remarkable amount of coming and going. Simply counting Catholics since 1972, for example, you would get the impression that its population had remained fairly static - at about 25% of adult Americans (the current number is 23.9%). But the Pew report shows that of all those raised Catholic, a third have left the church. (That means that roughly one out of every 10 people in America is a former Catholic, and that ex-Catholics are almost as numerous as the America's second biggest religious group, Southern Baptists...
...before, the band’s use of noise, reverb, and minimalist production presents the sounds of the ’60s in quality contemporary form. The album’s a logical progression for the band. Their music has been headed this way since they first experimented with static on 2003 track “Noisy Summer,” whose opening blast growled threateningly through the background of an otherwise bouncy and adorable chant. From the first ominous rumble out of Foo’s bass on “Aly, Walk With Me,” it?...