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...Kennedy sits bare-chested and bare-kneed in dark shadow, gazing pensively at an apple. In the editor's letter, he ruminates on the nature of temptation--"I'm playing Hamlet with my willpower (Should I or shouldn't I?)." The literary reference must suffice to convey his torment because he coyly declines to reveal the snakes in his Garden. Instead, he breaks the Kennedy-clan mantra of loyalty no matter what the crime by observing that cousin Joseph, who tried to annul his first marriage, and cousin Michael, who dallied with the baby-sitter, had become the "poster boys...
America's companies, and especially its workers, went through restructuring torment in the early '90s, but as a result are now punishingly competitive. Adding to the U.S. advantage: Americans are far ahead of their European and Japanese counterparts in embracing computers and communications systems in homes and offices. With companies increasingly able to get more from their people and resources, corporate profits, and hence stock prices, have risen relentlessly...
...Boston Ballet adds a few details which may prove confusing (and somewhat ethnically offensive) for members of the audience who are only familiar with Disney's version of the fairy tale. Cinderella's father is not dead, but very weak-spirited, and only watches sadly as the wicked stepsisters torment his daughter. Cinderella's late mother left her a locket, which the stepsisters try to steal from her. Cinderella gets a bit of revenge when the Dancing Master visits, for she learns the steps faster than her jealous stepsisters. When the Fairy Godmother arrives, she whisks Cinderella away to dance...
...feelings of excitement and triumph do not come without feelings of exhaustion and torment...
...just getting started. We have much familiar hardship and vile torment to go. Not to mention the inevitable triumph of the human spirit. One day Adrienne Pargiter (Glenn Close) and Margaret Drummond (Pauline Collins) get to humming the theme from a symphony. The former once studied music seriously; the latter is a missionary who knows how inspiring a good tune can be when you're in the dumps. Or trying to survive in one. Soon enough the prisoners form a symphonic chorus, which sings wordless versions of great orchestral works. Even the more selfish and cynical prisoners--among them recent...