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...made up of 33 short vignettes. Robinson says of the non-linear scene structure that “it’s like the way we remember life.” Bette and Boo’s marriage ceremony begins the play, but as the plot progresses, their relationship quickly deteriorates. But as actor Josh C. Phillips ’07 points out, “it’s not their fault.” Rather, outside forces like Boo’s alcoholism and Bette’s miscarriages saddle both the couple and their only child, Matt...
...film would have benefited, if Nolan had focused more on his own apprentices, the talented Bale, Jackman and Caine—delving more into the psyches of their characters, instead of wasting their talents on an overly complicated plot...
...grab the lapels of their leather jackets and tell them, as Max Eastman once told Hemingway, to come out from behind the false hair on their chest. But Parker is always a breezy read, and in this, his 34th Spenser mystery, the macho posturing is tempered by a plot that turns on his hero's vulnerability and one of his good deeds gone bad. A runaway he rescued from a life of low-rent prostitution (by putting her in the care of a high-priced madam) has dug herself into a hole so deep even Spenser may not be able...
...Wilde’s plays take place in a parallel universe where everyone is witty and wit is everything. Mention Wilde’s name, and people are far more likely to respond with the recitation of a particularly pithy or clever line than with a summary of the plot of “The Importance of Being Earnest.” It is, accordingly, a world in which actors must carry much of the responsibility for the success or failure of a production, and the mostly superb acting in the current HRDC interpretation of “Lady Windermere?...
...former U.S. national security official tells TIME there is no doubt that KSM personally wielded the knife that killed the Wall Street Journal reporter. This official says that Ahmad Omar Saed Sheik insisted under interrogation that taking Pearl's life was not at first part of the kidnap plot - though Sheik also told his questioners that Pearl's kidnappers could never have released him because he was Jewish. But as the scheme unfolded, someone senior to him in the al-Qaeda hierarchy, known as "the fat man," took control of the operation and beheade Pearl...