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...anger and frustration Alice loses control of her emotions and slaps the child across the face. As one might expect, this event remains sharply fixed in Alice's mind. Elliott uses several slow-motion flashbacks to effectively show the confusing memory interfering with Alice's concentration--eventually, she cannot manage these thoughts and one afternoon becomes a fateful turning point when she takes care of her children along with her friend Theresa's (Julianne Moore) three daughters...
...child. He urges Alice to focus on the daily routine, oblivious to the fact that her life is falling apart. There is a particularly striking scene when Howard is about to make love to his wife one night, and though she is unable emotionally to handle it, he still cannot comprehend the problems she is dealing with...
Sadly, despite its insightful exploration of terminal illness and all its repercussions, Wit cannot offer a solution, a cure. Dr. Bearing informs us two minutes into the play that she will ultimately die. Perhaps an answer to some of the dilemmas appears in the John Donne sonnets that provide Dr. Bearing with a coping mechanism for cancer. A comma is the only punctuation separating life from death in the verses of Donne. There is no conclusive period, no exclamation point separating the two juxtaposed thoughts; only a simple, smooth transitional comma. Of course, cancer is not the simplest or smoothest...
...appears that those candidates who lost in the popular election cannot accept the student body's rejection of their candidacy. Instead, they have chosen to reverse the student decision to elect Burton. Now these same people want to deny the student body of its right to a recall vote and a choice to retain Burton as vice president...
...troubled that procedural due process and fairness have been hijacked by a disgruntled minority that cannot accept defeat. As students of government and advocates for justice, we implore the council to resurrect the right of the student body and reconsider last week's decision to ignore the constitutional provision that allows only the student body to recall an executive officer. The collective and reasoned voice of the people at large should not be silenced by the screams...