Word: inquisitor
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...Senator or Congressman to do? He has picked his best blue suit, his most sincere red tie and perhaps has even gone under the sunlamp in quest of a TV tan. His frenzied staff has churned out briefing books and questions. But even with all these preparations, an ineffective inquisitor could send millions of viewers straight to the refrigerator. To prevent Americans from pigging out on between-meal snacks, herewith some TV tips to help committee members mind their P's and Q-ratings...
...heavily on ritual and brief blackout skits that verge on surreal slapstick; he creates a milieu more than he mounts a debate. Like a cinematic montage, the story jumps from Raskolnikov to his family, his destitute neighbors, a deranged friend caught in a suicidal religious ecstasy and, occasionally, the inquisitor who seeks to extract Raskolnikov's confession. This structure is meant to evoke Raskolnikov's disconnection: only with a dead friend's daughter Sonya (Kate Fuglei) does he show tenderness...
Otherwise, there is a very talented cast of character actors, including Academy Award-winner, F. Murray Abraham, as Bernardo Gui, a Spanish Inquisitor and William's nemesis. And while the cavernous abbey has none of the ornate, Florentine architecture we associate with religious structures, it's the perfect canvas for the Gothic faces who dwell there--monks with hunchbacks, bloated tumors, anemic skin and smudged features. No detail was spared on casting the extras...
Days and Nights Within was chosen to showcase Peterson's talents and those of the woman he lives with, Remains and Steppenwolf Actress Amy Morton. The story depicts the actual and dreamed encounters between a woman accused of spying in East Germany in the early 1950s and her Communist inquisitor. In the original production at Actors Theater of Louisville last year, the characters engaged in a kind of perverse romance, with each wistfully trying to break down barriers. In Chicago, the struggle is for power: Morton endows the woman with toughness, and Peterson portrays the questioner as an unimaginative bureaucrat...
...Nevr-Dull," the inquisitor volunteered at one point, as they got off on the burnishing side of life. "I use Simichrome polish...