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...mood of the Black and White was definitively upbeat in spite of those setbacks...
That precision, for better and worse, pervades the play’s new Loeb Ex staging, which opened on Friday and runs through this Saturday. There’s precision in its characters’ affected mannerisms, split-second swivels of mood and stuffy social conventions; there’s artful precision in the slow pacing of its lighting changes. The play is a Swiss watch, and the Ex production exposes its grinding, churning gears for all to see: audience members box in the action on three sides, and the set—decorated with glass, sheer fabrics and transparent...
Wherever the commission is headed--it is expected to issue a unanimous report in July--it's not clear that the Bush team is in a mood to go along. A handful of congressional Republicans called for the resignation of commission member Jamie Gorelick after Attorney General John Ashcroft in his testimony blamed her for erecting the infamous "wall" between intelligence and criminal investigations when she was Deputy Attorney General under Clinton. As it turns out, Gorelick had simply distilled case law going back to the early Reagan Administration, and Ashcroft's Justice Department abided by the same policy...
...cradles the bass, Woodward’s foot dances along the board, switching between sounds and distortions. His right hand occasionally sneaks up to adjust the knobs and buttons beside him; he varies their sound to fit the mood of each song, which range from reflective meditation (“I Wonder If The Snow Will Settle”) to self-deprecatory invective (“I’d Really Like to Hurt You”). The band readily admits the debt they owe to their obsessive-lover Brit forebears. “They always say our sound draws...
...there is a remarkable unanimity in support of the President's resolve to finish the job. "Staying the course" has become the watchword of both the White House and the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, as well as Washington's most loyal allies, led by Britain's Tony Blair. The mood has been well summarized by Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic Studies: "It doesn't matter how we got here, we are here. And the priority for success is very high...