Word: tendernesses
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...Laura is as fragile as the glass figurines of animals she collects. To portray her effectively, an actress must convey her vulnerability without making her seem pitiable and tiresome. On Broadway three years ago, Calista Flockhart, star of the new Fox hit Ally McBeal, gave a beautifully poised and tender performance as Laura, winning your heart and breaking it too. Now, as Ally McBeal, Flockhart faces a similar challenge: how to play a vulnerable young woman in such a way that when she gets all trembly, the viewer doesn't want to throw glass figurines...
...Lawrence's ECAC preliminary round loss to Harvard epitomized its disappointing 5-12-5 league record. In addition, goal-tender Clint Owen missed the first half of the season for violating team rules and has now decided to forego his final year of eligibility after signing a professional contract...
...naturalist Pliny observed that one of the great "antipathies of nature" exists between the rhinoceros and its natural enemy, the elephant. Pliny recounts how the rhinoceros sharpens its horn against a rock and charges the elephant full tilt, aiming "straight at the belly, which he knows to be more tender than the rest." In the 1830s, explorer James Edward Alexander described the following interaction between these two enemies: "When the elephant and the rhinoceros come together and are mutually enraged, the rhinoceros, avoiding the blow of the trunk and the thrust of the tusks, dashes at the elephant's belly...
...feet and recite Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, in English and from memory. (Nixon felt compelled to get out of his chair and declaim along.) In the Philippines last year at a soiree on the presidential yacht, Jiang danced the cha-cha and sang a duet of Love Me Tender with President Fidel Ramos. When Jiang finally met President Clinton, Ramos advised, "Surprise him with the song...
Consider, for example, Scene IV.ii, in which we meet Macduff's wife and son for the first time, watch them engage in a tender family scene--and then are forced to watch in horror as they are murdered by Macbeth's soldiers. In this production, the pantomime of a soldier stabbing the child (played by Aaron Goldberg '01), his cry of "He has killed me, mother!" and his immediate collapse into lifelessness was greeted by the audience with a burst of laughter...