Word: unfoldment
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...Prejudice, being given its U.S. premiere in a meticulous production by Kenneth Frankel at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater. Shrewdly and wittily adapted from Jane Austen's classic 1813 novel, Pownall's tale has a beginning, middle and end. Its intrigues of love, marriage and social climbing unfold in period costume on representational sets. The characters are affectionate exaggerations of recognizable types. This is satire without much bite: the play's boldest statements are that there is more to life than marriage, even for Austen's young women and their eager mothers, and that love should overcome distinctions...
...ceremony earlier in the year, it emerged that he's able to recall, in detail, the circumstances of all of his 499 wickets. Just pick a number and off he goes. "If I'd have written down 10 years ago how I'd have wanted my cricket life to unfold," he says, "it wouldn't have been too different to how it's panned...
...hands-down favorite to become the nation’s next Federal Reserve chairman when Alan Greenspan retires next year. But in recent months, pundits and online gamblers alike have started putting their money on different candidates as details of a scandal at the American International Group, Inc. (AIG) unfold...
...graphic novelist, Stevens seems well-positioned to portray this phase of a young person’s life, imbuing it with an air of reality and truth. Although Stevens says that “Guilty” is not an autobiographical work, it feels as though the events that unfold in this book could have happened, even if they never actually did. While this makes for a story where less happens, it gives the work a subtle, textural quality of wordless image and emotion that slows the narrative, forcing the reader to recognize the humanity of the characters...
Because when he was 18, after all, he hadn’t yet seen the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001 unfold. Nor had the Beslan school attacks of last September yet occurred, an event which, he says, crystallized his thoughts...