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...represent "the courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye," just a spoiled latch-key kid whose parents didn't hug him enough. Thankfully, the two are saved by the supporting cast. Bill Murray as Polonius injects significant pathos into Polonius' foppish politicking and Liev Schriber demonstrates some exceptionally tender moments before he departs in the opening act. In their short time together, this father-son duo exudes great paternal chemistry, which ends up more compelling than the shallow animosity between Claudius and Hamlet. The film improves in the second half, which by sheer coincidence is when Hawke spends least time...
...someone who has confronted his own mortality and won a deeper understanding of life. "Rudy's got a tremendous amount of compassion, but nobody knows that," says Molinari. "I'm not sure he wants people to know. But as a result of this, people might see the warm and tender side he's never shown...
Rosellen Brown's novels characteristically lob bombshells into well-ordered domestic lives and then calmly assess the ensuing damage. In Tender Mercies (1978), a husband's reckless bravado during a boating trip leads to an accident that leaves his wife paralyzed. Civil Wars (1984) portrays a liberal married couple in Mississippi who receive custody of the two children of Klan-supporting, racist in-laws, killed in a car crash. In Before and After (1992), well-to-do parents discover that their son has murdered his girlfriend. In each book, the page-turning question becomes, Then what...
...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...