Word: avoiding
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...added that when she spoke with members of the group Saturday, they said they had "decided to try to avoid situations that may result in their arrest...
...Police are determined to avoid a repeat of the chaos of Seattle. But is this necessary? The protests are unlike those in Seattle in several key respects. For one thing, unlike Seattle, organized labor decided to sit this one out (instead focusing on lobbying the Clinton administration against China's entry into the WTO), which meant there are far fewer protesters in the streets. And many of the attendees in Seattle from Third World countries agreed with some of the protesters' points, making it easier to disrupt the meeting there. All of which means the police action could...
...wants something nice and easy." And I stuttered, "Uh...uh...okay..." I took the guys back to the band house during the break and told them what he had said. We learned two or three slow songs during that break. We started trying to figure out how to avoid getting killed. And we survived. It really made me appreciate Cambridge when we came back...
...better or worse, playwrights can never avoid telling a story when they put pen to paper, and if their realm of authority extends only so far as spoken dialogue, then they will have no choice but to tell entire stories through dialogue alone. On top of this a director will then add his or her own visual story in the visual language that Artaud holds so dear. Combining these distinct layers of narrative-one conceived in words by a person at a desk, the other conceived in images by a person in a theater-into a single performance...
...role of Dame Hannah, Rose's spinster Aunt, puts so much comic energy into her part that she lights up every scene in which she appears. Furthermore, it is easy to realize that Kim is enjoying herself on stage and having a great time as Hannah, allowing her to avoid succumbing to potential silliness, as sporadically happens to Karoun Demirjian '03 in playing the village lunatic, Mad Margaret (although it seems to have more to do with the nature of her part than her actual performance). Kim's vibrancy is not to be missed; each of her humorous and irreverent...