Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Affleck and Damon agreed to appear on Saturday at Decker's request, though the actors were already in Boston this weekend for an American Repertory Theatre event at the Four Seasons Hotel...
Rambling, incoherent speeches also give me a queasy, skittish feeling, and there were plenty of those on Saturday as well. I should acknowledge, though, that the crowd didn't seem to mind much. They sat patiently while speakers touched on themes including the Iraqi trade embargo, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and of course, the Left's soon-to-be-executed favorite son, Mumia Abu-Jamal...
Waco hearings didn't work, even though 80 people died. Impeachment hearings didn't work, although the President actually had sex with that woman. Trying to show that reuniting a devoted father with his devoted son is a miscarriage of justice because the son had the misfortune to wash up on the shores of a swing state? No wonder Democrats are happy...
...humiliations and insults there is a bond far too strong for either of them to sacrifice. It is this same, inexplicable attraction which prevents Nick and Honey from withdrawing from the domestic battlefield before they too are wounded. In fact, until the final moments, it seems as though the unlucky visitors may receive the worst of George and Martha's spiteful insults; the older couple are long-since used to their relationship, treating each other's constant attacks as merely a game played with lies and half-truths. By the end of the evening, their stories and memories become...
...eerie detachment-occasionally overwhelmed by his suppressed anger boiling over-carries the action of the drama and most of the audience's sympathies. Anna Pound's Martha puts up a good fight, but is just slightly too shrewish to make her incessant complaints of George's failure sound convincing. Though interesting characters themselves, Nick and Honey are reduced to back seat passengers as George and Martha speed headlong toward one another...