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...Halpern sensitively draws forth the unsettled and quite neurotic aspects of Sally all throughout the show. While we cannot be made to admire Sally or pass over her lack of vision and strength, Halpern captures an essential sweetness and allurement. Halpern's Sally and Hummel's Cliff manage to sustain the convincingly potent magnetism of their first meeting. But even so, some plot turns, like their decision to get married, seem to come too suddenly. When Cliff realizes that he has been "sleepwalking" as the Nazis rise and must now wake up. Hummel communicates a freshness and intelligence. Cliff...
Such signs of trendy "me" generationism from the West are bound to disrupt a culture famous for both its antiquity and its insularity. As it has tried to yank itself into modernity while preserving its respect for history, to sustain simultaneously its dedication to progress and its devotion to the past, Deng's China?like contemporary Japan in its very different way?has often lost its balance...
...EVENING, HOWEVER, belongs to freshman Julie Glucksman who charms and coruscates as Nora. Beautiful enough to carry off lines like "it's a good thing everything looks good on me" and delightful enough to make us understand Torvald's obsession. Glucksman also manages to sustain a fine balance between her character's outward uncertainty and inner strength. Her refusal to play the cliched "strong woman" through the first two acts makes Nora's third act awakening all the more shattering. Instead of emphasizing the potentially didactic element of the script. Glucksman convincingly brings out the deeper, more rivelling dilemma...
Many doctors feel uncomfortable with an attitude that is anything less than completely "aggressive" towards treatment, citing the Hippocratic Oath that all physicians take before practicing, which states that they will do all in their power to prolong or sustain life. But it is essential to remember that the oath was written thousands of years ago. The medical capabilities of the physician then were highly limited, so much so that it was safe to make such a promise without fear of the impending ethical questions raised by devices such as respirators or organ transplants. But many aspects of this oath...
...nostalgically recalling simpler days. Winners the "Kool-Aid" Mom, who gratefully remembers how her own mother used to serve tall glasses of juice to the thirsty kids on the block. Although these black-and-white flashbacks of Americans are tolerable in 30-second packages, their flat sentimentality cannot sustain an audience for two hours. Swing Shift, the film that professes to tell what happened when "the men went to war and the women went to work," completely fails to represent the dynamic period of World War II America...