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...resource: Someone will post a query about how to play a particular passage, and the forum's participants will descend on it like a pack of wolves, each trying to top the other with the accuracy of their transcriptions, so that often within minutes it will have been stripped bare like the carcass of some hapless buffalo. The tone is supportive and down-homey ("You have ears like a damn dog," ran one appreciative posting recently. "I bet you can hear a mouse pee on cotton"); novices' questions are patiently addressed and everybody knows your name. Make that every Buddy...
...similar number of votes as a consequence of ineptitude, it usually won't matter too much. In fact we wouldn't normally even hear about it. Well, now it does matter and we are hearing about it. The gross and inaccurate workings of the election system are laid bare...
...year-old Palestinian boy caught in cross fire was terrible, it was nevertheless an accident, and Israelis across the political spectrum immediately expressed deep regret. By contrast, the beating and killing of the Israeli reservists in Ramallah was intentional. The Palestinians killed the Israelis with their bare hands and then showed them to a cheering mob. STEPHEN A. SILVER Concord, Calif...
...Though some of the actors are sharper than others, the fluidity of the ensemble cast together enlivens the bare text of the play. Gorky allows the director a lot of leeway with respect to who talks to whom when six or seven characters are on stage. This production takes full advantage by creating eddies of conversation that alternately split and combine based on the context, adding texture to what would otherwise be a dry series of declamations...
...newly misanthropic Timon, is clearly unsuitable for a student production. To this problem, director Matt Hudson found the simplest solution: he cut. The cast was reduced to about half its prescribed size, Timon's speeches were shortened or eliminated and the verbal exchanges between characters were reduced to the bare minimum. This aides comprehension, and the production is an effective digest of the original Timon, retaining all the original pathos in significantly fewer words...