Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...said his access had improved dramatically in the four years he'd worked in the DPRK. He said if the DPRK can open up to the outside world and become a market economy, outsiders would find the population "very hard workers". He said that as far as he could tell, the North Koreans are very keen now to open up. "It's the compulsion of difficulties which is forcing them to look outward," he said...
...Across the mall at Ruby Tuesday, the television was tuned to pro bowling during the final debate, and after a couple of beers you couldn't tell the difference. Across the street, at the Waffle House between the Steak N Shake and Crabby Tom's Seafood, TIME magazine conducted a poll at least as scientific and useful as any of the others you get bombarded with daily. There were five diners in the room. Asked whom they like, there was a groan or two. Pressed to answer, four took Bush; one liked Gore. Asked, Why Gore? he said...
...that playwrights as talented as Bennett and Robertson must resort to such shifts in focus in order to tell the simple and compelling story of a man or woman gone mad? Countless novels, from Notes from Underground to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, depict the inner lives of deeply troubled individuals, as do untold numbers of movies. But novels and movies share a subjectivity that drama categorically lacks. Both can get inside the heads of their characters in a way that no piece of theater...
...central character remains constant, the way in which that condition is viewed can be manipulated and changed by the author or director so as to bring the audience from one point of knowledge about the character to another. And just as on a train it's impossible to tell if you are moving forward or the landscape is moving backwards, in a novel or film it's difficult to distinguish between a shift in a given character and a shift in the ways you are allowed to perceive that character...
...that the conflicts of government play a larger role in the second part of Bennett's play than the first. And, more to the point, there is a reason Robertson's play ends with Mary declaring herself insane. From that point on, there can be no further story to tell...