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...execution chambers, even the most antiseptic, stand as silent, smirking answers that blanch the irony out of St. Paul's question "O Death, where is thy sting?" Death comes in several varieties. It can be incongruously vibrant like "Yellow Mama," the electric chair in Alabama used last week for the execution of ex-Klansman Henry Hays. Or death can have the rustic decrepitude of the gallows in Delaware, which remains in operation. But on every chamber hang the words inscribed in Dante's Inferno: "Abandon all hope you who enter here...
...Foreign Minister of a sovereign nation." I had thought while I was sitting there what a long distance we have come. The Soviet Union is no longer. We have just completed a historic signing in Paris of the NATO-Russia Founding Act. And the Czechs are a vibrant sovereign nation...
Some students had complained that Loker has functioned more as a study hall than as the active, vibrant student center it promised...
...pacing. The action and the dialogue are sometimes slow, making the play less powerful and often weakening the comedy. In scenes where the pacing is quicker and more appropriate for Stoppard's insightful repartees, like the game of "questions" played by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, the play becomes more vibrant and engaging. But most of the time, the production relies on long dramatic pauses that leave the audience wondering what overwhelming thoughts have paralyzed the characters. Similarly, the amount of time the player and his troupe are given to perform silently on stage breaks up the dialogue, which is the play...
There is a slight similarity in the mentoring relationship between the swan and the Prince to that of Bourne and Cooper. Cooper, 25, the Royals' most adventurous, vibrant dancer, began by working with Bourne occasionally. Swan Lake changed all that. Cooper became the toast of London when the show ran there nightly for 21 weeks last fall. He left the Royals and committed himself to Bourne's company, Adventures in Motion Pictures...