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...Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson explicate a typical and relatively easy example: "Into boudoir Joyce inserts the letter I and converts the word to boudeloire, thus adding a river association, 'Loire.' Clinging to the word also are the French associations, bonder, 'to pout' and bone, 'mud.' " Not to men tion a reference to the poet Baudelaire. After you've grappled with Finnegans Wake, any pun seems accessible...
...Hand. Cleansers like pHisoHex are credited with checking virulent staphylococcal infections among newborn infants. "Staph" is a ubiquitous bug transmitted in the air and by human hands. In high concentration, some strains can cause skin and eye inflammations and can even lead to pneumonia, heart problems and bone disease. The U.S. Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, which has been checking rumors of rising rates of staph infections, reported that 23 hospitals across the country have experienced such outbreaks since the beginning of the year...
...waited, and beneath by two hands now clasped around one heavy knee...felt like some living prehistoric bone full of solidity, aesthetic richness, latent athleticism...
...believable. As his quickly sidelined partner. Reni Santoni deserves praise for making his lines sound less hackneyed than they were written. Andy Robinson's performance should corner him the market on psychopaths. His demonic laugh would warm Edgar Allen Poe's blood and curdles everyone else's. Adjectives like "bone-chilling" were invented for eyes like his. And the controlled delirium of his voice completely confirms his satanic presence as Harry's ultimate...
Bernard Culshaw's set is perfect for this production, consisting simply of a ramp in the middle half of the stage leading to a backdrop, constructed as strictly as a seventeenth century Italian stage, focused on a vanishing point in a painted setting sun. It is a bone set to go with a bare production, and, like the rest of the production, it demonstrates a solid grasp of the fundamentals...