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...humanity. Ionesco's script is extremely challenging, yet well-executed by both cast and crew (despite a few slow set changes). For two and a half hours Goor, Ben Davis and Alexis Susman admirably sustain all the energy and intensity their frantic plight requires as they try to stave off the advancing rhinos. But Berenger's ambiguous triumph in the final is delayed by excessive monologue that returns again and again to circular questions already addressed throughout the play...
...believe, Captain Yaroslav Kudrinski's 15-year-old son -- who, with his sister, was apparently receiving a lesson from Dad on how to fly the plane -- inexplicably may have disengaged the plane's autopilot, stalling the craft and sending it into a dive. In a desperate effort to stave off disaster, someone lunged for the instrument panel. Whoever it was very nearly succeeded; Flight 593 crashed with its nose slightly up and its wings level, indicating that seconds before impact, someone regained at least control...
...that tiger parts are still widely available. "We feel so disappointed that we are doing so much and getting so little credit for it," says Ling. Ginette Henley of TRAFFIC USA admits that the Taiwanese have taken steps but fears that Taiwan and China will do just enough to stave off sanctions and then allow the markets to resume business...
...first five playlets embrace 90 years, from the Revolution to the Civil War, during which the families stave off the larger world and live independent if hardscrabble lives. The second half traces the coming of coal mining and company towns, the rise and decline of unions, the exhaustion of the old industrial base and the rehabilitative efforts of environmentalists -- all outside forces that the locals cannot resist...
...first five playlets embrace 90 years from the Revolution to the Civil War, during which the families stave off outside forces and live independently. The second half concerns the coming of coal mining and company towns, the rise and decline of the union movement, the exhaustion of the old industrial base and the redemptive efforts of the environmental movement -- all outside forces that the locals are helpless to resist. The rhetoric begins with assertions of rampant individual freedom and evolves into a more mature recognition of individual responsibility...