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...vocal ability to make his material convincing, from the weary amazement of Why Ain't I Running to the matter-of-fact Wrapped Up in You to the bad-boy exuberance of Beer Run. The problem is he never stops selling. He invests as much in trifles like The Storm ("She's drowning in emotions, and she cannot reach the shore") as he does in Pushing Up Daisies, a tune about his mother's death. Either he's blind to his lyrics' weaknesses or he's using sincerity as a kind of hustle. Regardless, it comes off as crass...
...allies have long believed that Omar and bin Laden would choose to go down in a blaze of martyrdom. But with the storm gathering around them, both men appeared intent on survival. Perhaps their only way out was a dangerous route through the snowy passes of the White Mountains and into one of the border towns of Pakistan. Once there, they could receive refuge from sympathetic Pashtun tribesmen and be absorbed into the anonymous urban surroundings...
Poised to take the art world by storm, Agens Chu proves that posh style and a discerning eye can go hand in hand with a self-assured charm and intuition about the road ahead...
...what scenario could a National Guardsman with an automatic rifle better handle a terrorist threat than law enforcement or well-trained civilian security? Neither the Taliban nor anyone else is going to storm into an airport and open fire—at least, unless they have a penchant for airports, a public shooting there is no more likely than anywhere else. And with or without military personnel around every corner, even the most dim-witted terrorist would never try to hijack a plane by rushing through metal detectors, ready for a footrace or a firefight...
...visionary designer of stage space and actors' movement. The action in Metamorphoses is structured around a large wading pool, and the stage devices are so elegantly simple, they provoke a smile even as they heighten the drama. When God creates light, an actor lights a cigarette; for a fatal storm at sea, a bare-chested thug tosses a bucket of water at the captain and wrestles him into submission in the water. Some stories are enacted, others narrated; still others are a deft mix of the two. A few good-natured modernisms are sprinkled in, but they never interfere with...