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...Remele is the head-in-the-clouds artist/academic, Whitman holds up the business end. She speaks in a clipped tone and shuttles the samples back and forth from the bedroom to the racks. A member of the Bee Club and its historian, she has attracted many of her fellow...
This emotional balance is maintained admirably throughout, only losing its hold and becoming somewhat overdramatic at the very end, when the woman prepares for an act severely inconsistent with the tone of the play. A more subtle resolution may have been more effective...
...Alwa, playing another of Lulu’s lovers, Jess R. Burkle ’06 adds a more sophisticated but equally enjoyable comic dimension to the play with his keen sarcasm and biting wit. Alwa’s role soon grows more serious, however, along with the overall tone of the play. Lulu is implicated in the murder of one of her husbands. As she subsequently attempts to cover up her guilt with offers of sex, which she markets by exploiting her innocent appearance, Lulu’s core of true innocence begins to scratch away...
...statement to TIME, Specter said he was "impressed" by the range of cases Miers had handled in civil practice. But his tone was wait and see: "I think the critical factor, as usual, will be the hearings--perhaps a little more important for Ms. Miers than others because her record is so thin...
...this incident doesn't set the tone for the book, which is pretty stately and keeps displays of divine superpowers to a minimum. Young Jesus is largely unaware of his origins, and much of the book is taken up with his daily life and that of his extended family as they make their way from Alexandria, in Egypt, to Nazareth, where they settle down and go into business. Rice does a thorough job of re-creating the domestic realities of 1st century Judaea: the babble of languages--Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew, Latin--the labor of carpentry; the regular visits...