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Several Cantabrigians also spoke at length about their concerns over the proposed development of property near Alewife owned by W.R. Grace and Co. The residents said the development would cause environmental and traffic problems in the area...
...production of "Long Day's Journey Into Night" does have a touch of the "take your medicine" about it. Daniels had the sense not to meddle too much with the play or its conventional performance style, to let it stretch out to its own onerous length of three hours and shoulder its own inexplicable burden of a housemaid's scattered cameos and her inevitably painful Irish accent. The play stands by itself, an unblinking testament to all-American dysfunction at the very site, the vacation home, where family togetherness is supposed to be at its best. Fortunately for us, this...
...good part. What is exasperating about Isaacs' novel is that every even-numbered chapter breaks off from this engaging legal drama to spin out a whiny and exceedingly slow-moving melodrama of Lily White's fretful childhood and early adult years. Her younger sister, we learn at great length, was pretty and petulant and absorbed all their parents' attention; her father was a Jewish businessman who tried unsuccessfully to be a Wasp; the husband Lily eventually married was handsome but shallow...
...single, wordless gesture. In this video, presented simply in an empty room on a conventional screen, two women are approached by a third who embraces one of the women and whispers something in her ear. A few seconds of film is stretched to twenty times its original length, and every subtle, lovely element of the total motion is exposed to attention our impatient eyes would typically be unable to observe. The piece is simple, monumental, beautiful and holy...
...seconds. Swimsuits coated with water-repellent resins have been developed independently at Speedo International and Tyr. The resins give the suits a silklike effect by reducing the rippling that occurs in human skin. Speedo has supplied its suits, which feature distinctive stripes of the new material and include knee-length versions, to teams in 46 countries, and a few swimmers may make a splash with them in Atlanta...