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...Bush's education message. Another reports that Bush's big speech is in its third revision. The Governor has just seen his first copy, sent over an hour earlier in one of the narrow black binders that line the shelves of the room. Spaces have been left in the text for anecdotes that are still being "scrubbed" to make sure the real-life stories can withstand scrutiny. An economic update is next; someone makes a joke about budget baselines. Everyone laughs...
...business types) might want in a personal digital assistant. It has the usual calendar, address book, to-do list and notepad, but also a readable digital clock available at the push of a button. And while most people will want to learn Graffiti (the scribbling technique for inputting text with a plastic stylus), the notepad also accepts jottings in your own handwriting. Say you meet a friend in a parking lot who gives you a phone number: you simply write it on the screen as you would on paper. Your message is saved in your own handwriting rather than converted...
...their actions. A notable exception arises in Blanche's lapses into reminiscence, where the music she danced to long ago clashes with the background honky-tonk, creating a cacophony to echo the disturbance within her mind. Though the relative visual simplicity of the piece is important to the text, shifting boundaries between realism and magic--pantomimed doors and cloth walls give way to warped floorboards and battered furniture--is at once complimentary and disconcerting. Stella, Blanche and Stanley are crowded together into a tiny space where privacy does not exist and escape is impossible...
...play generally lacks passion. This general malaise is made more obvious in the moments when one of the ensemble truly shines. Perhaps the performers will find their characters in time to salvage them, and the Streetcar will roll on. If not, this production is a respectable introduction to Williams text for those unfamiliar with the play, and a chance for others to revisit a memory or two. In either case, HRSTs Streetcar provides an unknowing example of the difference between the truth and, as Blanche puts it, what ought to be the truth...