Word: unfold
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Lengthy conversations unfold about their various relationships, opera and especially the soprano Maria Callas. The title refers to an elusive 1958 bootleg recording of Callas singing Verdi's La Traviata. Throughout the play, the characters invoke this hard-to-find record as a symbol of the unobtainable--true love, lasting happiness, freedom from anxiety in the age of AIDS...
...happens to them is careless and heedless. The actors bring a terrifying, clarifying force to their representation of an unsentimental sexual education, more powerful than any the movies have lately given us. There is something of Adam and Eve in their innocence. Except that as flashbacks within the flashback unfold, we realize that this Adam is already tainted by something like original sin, visited on him by his family's history (and symbolized by the hulking, tragic presence of his mentally deficient older brother), and that this Eve's temptation is, if anything, more clearly prefigured than that...
...great deal more complicated. The accretion of step-relatives and former in-laws will be legally messy and increasingly bewildering to children, who will have to divide their loyalties and love among stepmothers, birth mothers, biological fathers and ex- stepparents. An entire new body of case law will unfold as courts try to settle complex custody disputes and determine where a child's best interest may lie in a forest of hyphenated relatives...
...chore is sitting through the show. Despite some rudimentary special effects (animated letters rearranging themselves on a page; wisps of light traveling around the room), Ghostwriter seems to have unlearned nearly all the lessons that CTW has taught us about using TV to grab kids' attention. The stories unfold with painful slowness, and the breezy humor of first-rate CTW fare like Square One TV is strangely absent. Though aimed at seven- to 10- year-olds, the show seems too dull-witted and elementary. Looking for clues to the ghostwriter's identity, the kids try to analyze...
...watched Dreamgirls unfold, I found myself completely enthralled. The cast exhibited amazing talent, the costumes and sets were superb. The character Effie had me to the point of tears when she sang...