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Despite the familiarity of the story of Jesus Christ, countless audience members were overheard during intermission asking their companions concrete questions about the action of the play ("Who's that guy who keeps coming out and yelling?" "I think that's Judas..."). Whether or not the audience's competence at following the plot should be a consideration for the director, the fact is that many in attendance were reduced to a state of bewilderment...
...most famous passage of the entire novel, Flaubert writes that "a lamentable faculty arose in their spirits, that of seeing stupidity and no longer being able to tolerate it. They were saddened by insignificant things: the advertisements in the newspapers, the profile of a bourgeois, a mindless remark overheard by chance...
Like all children I once wanted to be older than I was. I remember I desired it with such obtuseness that when I overheard an adult comment that exercise makes children grow faster I spent an entire afternoon walking to and fro in a vain attempt to become eight sooner than scheduled. The extent of my folly eventually dawned on me, but years later I discovered that Einstein's special theory of relativity does predict that an observer moving quickly with respect to the surroundings is, in effect, travelling into the future. Of course for the effect to have been...
...OVERHEARD:] "Did Hollywood treat you well?" (posed to Fay Wray); "How's the acting going?" (posed to a young stud...
...OVERHEARD:] "We did Rocky Mountains, Vail...the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park...