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...special enough to overcome a bad marriage," Aurora snaps on the eve of Emma's wedding, voicing her own fears about what might happen if she ventured outside her perfectly tended Texas house and garden. "I am totally convinced that if you marry Flap Morton tomorrow you will ruin your life and make wretched your destiny," she adds. As always with Brooks, locution is character...
...after a 20-year absence, bankers summoned Vail back to save AT&T from financial ruin. The company was a mess. The original Bell patents had expired. Populists were attacking the firm over rates, and farmers were
...flag indicated a roughing the kicker penalty on Harvard, a call both late and questionable that gave Penn placekicker Dave Shulman one more chance to ruin what would have been Harvard's biggest comeback in almost 15 years. Shulman, five of 10 on the season going into the game, had come nowhere near the necessary distance on the original 38-yard attempt...
...most famous art critic of the age. On his wedding night, the 29-year-old Ruskin was paralyzed with disgust when confronted with the first naked female body he had ever seen. Promising to consummate the marriage six years hence, Ruskin told his bride Effie Gray that childbirth would ruin her beauty as well as interfere with their traveling in Europe so he might look at art. When the six years were up, Ruskin reneged, accusing the distraught Effie of insanity. She countered by obtaining an annulment on the basis of her husband's "incurable impotency." Ruskin presumably never...
SELLARS STAGES this "classical ruin" in the ancient future, a sparse and sterile set reinforced with projected slides of Renaissance perspective drawings of depth and space. This staging may demonstrate how much can be done with so little, but it appears to be of no other value or contribution to the production. At Harvard, Sellars' use of imaginative economy out of necessity was clever and even provocative, but in the real world it appears cheap, lazy and negligent. Besides, we have seen most of it before in Sellars' past shows. The attempt at surreal miasma falls short of what...