Word: unpeel
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...against them recklessly to show their claustrophobia. In all fairness, this direction does not make much sense when reading the play--it makes even less sense in this production because the Cabranes-Grant's set is not cramped. As a result, the audience merely wonders why the actors cannot unpeel themselves from the walls...
...office one night recently, Glenn sat back and talked about himself and his campaign. His staff had gone home, and the room was totally quiet. He puffed on one of his carved pipes, this one in the shape of a bearded monarch. Glenn is a difficult man to unpeel. After years of dealing with an accepting public, he drifts easily into platitudes. One keeps wondering what now drives him. Obviously the ambition is still great. For it, Glenn had swallowed his pride and invited even the hated Metzenbaum to his presidential announcement in New Concord in April...
Much work remained before the treasure could actually be read. The parchment was fragile and wafer-thin (.0039 in.), and the top edge had disintegrated into a fudgelike mass. Yadin's team froze the scroll to help unpeel it and used infra-red and reverse photography to reconstruct damaged portions...
...this is the broad comic talents of three of the actors. John Bacquie intelligently plays Gremio, Bianca's overaged suitor. Richard Price (as Lucentio's impersonating servant Tranio) effortlessly outwits better men. And John Cooper turns in a commanding performance as Grumio, Petruchio's spluttering servant. His attempt to unpeel layers and layers of clothing while telling the story of Petruchio's and Kate's trek through the snow, practically steals the production...
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