Word: problem
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...stock price jumped more than 30% as it became more attractive to other large broadcasters. McCain said last week that his job as Commerce Committee chairman "is to make the bureaucrats work for the people." But when it helps contributors too, McCain the reformer--fairly or not--has a problem...
...This problem becomes more troublesome, however, when combined with other shortcomings in the first act that detract from the cast's raw talent. Eve (Jac Huberman '01) questions relentlessly, but the strength of her part undermines Adam's (Steve Toub '01) on-stage presence. Toub appears uncomfortable on stage, and his voice only emerges fully confident at the end of Act I. The theater, moreover, occasionally feels cramped, especialy during the large ensemble numbers. Almost every scene has the storytellers, or chorus, sitting in white robes on the edges of the stage. And perhaps most importantly, the vocal coherence...
...know what his problem was. I was kind of pissed off at him because I felt like he sandbagged the movie right before it came out, had this huge tussle with the studio about this ridiculous scene that... It's just stupid, you know? I mean, he should have just trusted Sam Raimi to make a good movie, and he tried to subvert Sam's power in the movie and I was just kind of let down by it. I thought he was more of a team player than that, frankly, to use a sports analogy...
...because he does not need them. He knows that much can be said with few words, and he makes the most of it, turning Cedars into a movie about astonishing cinematography and fluid camera work. While the movie occasionally threatens to become too impressed with its own rapturousness (a problem that James Newton Howard's saccharine score does little to help), one has to admire Hicks' ability to communicate complex thought processes through long, wordless montages...
...Overall people are apathetic," she said. "Everything in the world is pretty much OK, so most people are kind of, 'Heh, let's keep things the same.' Until there's a problem, people don't look for solutions...