Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Prospero's opening lines in the second scene of Act I, so crucial to the audience's understanding of the plot after the omission of the first scene, are delivered at a manic pace. Those unfamiliar with the text are left bewildered by the rest of the play's development. Bishop pathetically compensates for the plot's mangled exposition by having a spirit hold up a chart listing the "Good Guys" and "Bad Guys" of the play for our convenience...
City officials contend that the increase was necessary because the present fee, between $2800 to $4800 a year depending on the type of liquor sold, has not kept pace with rising administrative costs...
...satisfied that we're doing what we can for the moment," Wolf said, "but I won't stay satisfied unless we continue the pace...
...dramatic moments of the play. Tense and serious moments are delivered with the same frenetic energy as humorous ones. At one point Bobby, as fed up with Rob's hackneyed moralizing and witless witticisms as we are, goes on a rampage in which he brings the play's quick pace to a grinding halt--at least it reads this way in the text. Yet Rainey delivers the speech with the same monochromatic, sugar-high intensity that characterizes most of Bobby's delivery. The result is an indeterminate dramatic haze that kills moments of potential power...
...always been preferred. Nowadays technology also plays a role: fetal testing procedures, such as amniocentesis and sonograms, are employed by women in China, Korea, India and elsewhere to detect the sex of a fetus. Many mothers will abort a female. "Over the past century science has only quickened the pace of the death of the female child, from the born to the unborn stage," says Meenu Sondhi, an amniocentesis researcher at Delhi University...