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...public announcer on a government radio station that spews out continuous propaganda; Kai's husband Han, a man on the make in the provincial government, who harbors dreams of greater influence; and Nini, a deformed girl, eldest of six daughters, who is nothing more than an unpaid, unloved servant to her family...
Izzettin Aslan, a retired civil servant, knows how elusive justice can be. In 1993, his son Murat, a 24-year-old university student in Diyarbakir, stepped out to pay an electricity bill. According to witnesses, four men grabbed Murat off a busy street in broad daylight and pushed him into a waiting car. "It was as if the ground opened up and swallowed him," Aslan says...
...cartoons. There are no Spots or Fidos. I think that speaks to what's going on and how we view pets as a part of the family. If you look at older descriptions of dogs on headstones at pet cemeteries, they say things like, "Here lies Fido, a loyal servant." By the mid-20th century it's, "Here lies Fido, my best friend." And nowadays you can go to online tributes to deceased pets and people write things like "Here is Jake, my baby...
...vision of the play—which runs through March 15 at the Loeb Drama Center—produce a near-perfect experience of Beckett’s absurdist drama about nothing and everything. Will LeBow is Hamm, the blind leader of his twisted little family, which includes his servant Clov (Thomas Derrah) and immobile parents, Nagg (Remo Airaldi) and Nell (Karen MacDonald), who live in ashbins. Unable to move from his wheelchair, Hamm is at once in command of this bizarre family unit and yet powerless to fully control his own self. What ensues is the daily, almost ritualistic...
...hundred years to travel one mile." - on getting sworn in at the state Capitol near where his grandfather had worked as an immigrant servant, Seattle Post-Intelligencer...