Word: yearning
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Lightweights Yearn for Jowe...
...entirely in English? For which the costumes are pieced together from antique kimonos, the set is metal gratings and a chair, and Lear spends a long while stuffed into a laundry cart? Surely this is auteurist direction run riot, the sort of conceptual staging of Shakespeare that makes theatergoers yearn for the days of the director as traffic...
...regularly with rumors of rain. A few drops usually fall, but the downpour that would ease the stifling 90 degrees heat never comes. To frustrated Panamanians, the weather this year provides a striking parallel to the political crisis that grips their country. Just as they long for rain, citizens yearn for the departure of General Manuel Antonio Noriega. But while Noriega faces a relentless combination of economic woes and widespread unrest, he still clings to power. Like the seemingly imminent rain, he stubbornly refuses to fall...
...natural modesty, but it can also be seen as a deliberate strategy. The Vice President made one of his most revealing statements when he declared his candidacy last October. "I am a practical man. I like what's real," he said. "I like what works . . . I do not yearn to lead a crusade...
CAPTION: Would his Administration be "pragmatic" or "mediocre"? "I am a practical man. I do not yearn to lead a crusade...