Word: tender
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...runs smoothly beside Bananas' wild antics. Their exploration of this world of insanity poses a question to the audience: who is truly crazy and is our preconceived idea of sanity reliable? Catherine Gowl masters the play's most challenging role by showing us glimpses of sincerely felt pain and tenderness in the midst of Bananas' outrageous chatter and acrobatics, including watering the flowers on the wall and climbing on and under furniture. Meanwhile, in the "normal real world," her choir-boy son Ronnie (Paul Monteleoni '01) draws laughs as he attempts to bomb the visiting Pope, Bunny withholds her cooking...
...when vegetative cover is removed, one need look no further than the 1930s Dust Bowl in the U.S. and the 1970s famine in Africa's Sahel. In both cases, a meteorological drought was exacerbated by agricultural and pastoral practices that stripped land bare, exposing it to the not so tender mercies of sun and wind...
...Lawyers for Elian's Miami relatives--who refuse to send him back to his father in communist Cuba--had the boy himself sign court papers seeking U.S. asylum. Elian, they said, is capable of deciding where he wants to live. But the first-grader's crude letters betray his tender mind, like the Power Rangers in his toy box. Last week Miami Federal Judge K. Michael Moore dismissed the relatives' case and agreed with Attorney General Janet Reno that only the Cuban father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, can speak for a child that young. "Each passing day," Moore wrote, "is another...
...impressive, no doubt, but Metheny's heart isn't there. He comes to life not in the elaborate showmanship of a piece like "(Go) Get It" but in the more contemplative tracks like "Travels" or "Just Like the Day." There are oceans of sorrow and hope in Metheny's tender musical treatment of the world. It's a shame he feels the need to lessen that tenderness by interspersing it with the technical know-how that so many other guitarists never move beyond. B --David D. Kornhaber...
...inciting mayhem and pyromania, also provided Waddellis sewing inspiration. iI was watching a Garbage video on MTV and I really liked Shirley Mansonis dress. Then I turned to my mom and said, eI want to learn how to sew.i She pretty much taught me everything from there.i At the tender age of 13 she was hooked. And sheis never turned back. Her average daily schedule goes something like this: iI sew for about two hours a day, everyday. My personal record was 12 straight hours of sewing. I sew womenis clothes, menis clothes, underwear, anything. I donit use patterns...