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...bank. your eldest cousin, my brother, had to work so he's not here. Li Gan is 21 just like you and is a student at Overseas Chinese University. Li Peng, we call her Premier, because her name is the same as the premier's, is 17. Da-Wan is 16 and still in school. Your uncle, who is your father's little brother, and cousin Chong-Yi are following us in a car. Chong-Yi's 18 and wants to be an engineer. I'm 22, like Li Mei, and I work at the pharmacy...
...strong script and meaningful character development, players are forced to rely on exaggerated gestures and movement to get their points across. Perhaps overemphasizing Merlyn's innocence, James Patterson, as the title character, remains wideeyed and blank-faced during most of the play. David Travis as Theloc, Merlyn's Obi-Wan Kenobi-like guru, manages to make the best of the show's most preposterous fortune-cookie-like lines. Sometimes, however, Travis, in an effort to maintain some sort of credibility for his character, acts too seriously. His furrowed eyebrows and deep voice only make it seem that Travis himself...
Through it all, Shevardnadze has displayed a steely, pig-headed courage. His wan smile, snowy head and immaculately pressed suits, trademarks of the emissary of international statecraft he once was, offer a jarring contrast to the bearded and increasingly desperate commanders who surround him. With only three hours' sleep a night, he speaks in a voice so hushed that aides must strain to hear him; and yet, when he finds it expedient, the Georgian leader summons a fierce eloquence, all the more surprising in his tattered circumstances. "I am addressing you from besieged Sukhumi not knowing if my words will...
...Wan Kenobi: Luke Skywalker...
That was good enough for Bill Clinton. Looking slightly wan, his voice a bit hoarse, a few minutes late and virtually unrehearsed, Clinton addressed the country from the Oval Office on Saturday evening. He described the plot against Bush and the efforts to confirm it. Then he announced that he had sent cruise missiles into Baghdad three hours before. He at one point felt it necessary to give a legalistic nod to the action, and so invoked Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which deals with self-defense. But for his real message he reached back to an older...