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Threats by Laurent Kabila's beleaguered government to strike against Rwanda have the taut tenor of songs of the doomed. "Kabila was brought to power by Tutsi soldiers from Rwanda and Burundi, and those same forces are now setting out to overthrow him," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. "This time they shouldn't need longer than 12 weeks to reach Kinshasa...
...play is something of a mess--more than three hours long, with too many characters and subplots, overwrought melodramatics and snippets of dialogue that sound like, well, bad Tennessee Williams (Girl to Guy: "Why don't you ever open the door you're hiding behind?"). But in Nunn's taut, forceful staging, the work is more than a footnote for Williams scholars; it's an evening of crude but often astonishing power...
SHOULD WINL.A. Confidential. A smart, taut throwback to the best tradition of noir, it far outranks its competitors in subtlety and style...
Coetzee's taut style proves effective in describing the arid beauty of the veldt: "The kraal walls ramble for miles up and down the hillside. Nothing grows here: the earth has been trampled flat and killed forever, he does not know how: it has a stained, unhealthy, yellow look...
...Having removed all the dead skin from the chest and neck, Himel holds the patient's left thigh taut while the surgical assistant uses an electric-powered device to peel away two foot-long strips of the epidermis and the upper part of the dermis from the woman's left...