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Ben Brantley, reviewing for the New York Times, wrote: " About halfway into its intermissionless 90 minutes, Little Fish starts to lose its shapely, sharp-edged contours and turn into a sentimental, well, blob ... Mr. LaChiusa ... and Ms. Daniele have done a swell job of fashioning a lively musical about what it means to feel lifeless in contemporary Manhattan ... Like many American musical composers under 50, Mr. LaChiusa is an artistic descendant of Mr. Sondheim, and in many ways Little Fish can be regarded as a direct, latter-day answer to Company.
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In his New York Times review of the 2009 Broadway production, Ben Brantley noted that " the expression that hovers over Trevor Nunn's revival ... feels dangerously close to a smirk ... It is a smirk shrouded in shadows.
Ben Brantley of The New York Times called it " a half-terrific revival of Mr. Stoppard's entirely terrific Arcadia ", noting that " several central roles are slightly miscast ", and " some of the performances from the Anglo-American cast are pitched to the point of incoherence.
In his review, New York Times critic Ben Brantley commented, “ her every stage appearance is perceived as a victory of show-business stamina over psychic frailty.
The New York Times Ben Brantley called his performance " the most lacerating portrait of a human meltdown this side of a Francis Bacon painting.
" Ben Brantley of the New York Times reported that Hawke's interpretation of Hotspur was " too contemporary for some tastes.
New York Times critic Ben Brantley praised Hawke's performance as the central character Eddie, reporting that " he captures with merciless precision the sense of a sharp mind turning flaccid ".
In his review for the New York Times, Ben Brantley noted the production's " scary, splendid clarity ", and praised Hawke for providing his cast " with a mood-stirring mise-en-scène " and, moreover, for eliciting a performance that " connoisseurs of precision acting will be savoring for years to come ".
Ben Brantley in his New York Times review wrote, " Working against type and expectation under the direction of Sam Mendes, Ms. Peters has created the most complex and compelling portrait of her long career, and she has done this in ways that deviate radically from the Merman blueprint.
Ben Brantley, chief theatre critic for The New York Times, was particularly vocal in his praise.
Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote: " Ms. Gyllenhaal provides the essential bridge between the parts of the play's title.
Reviewing the production in the New York Times, Ben Brantley wrote that "... in his art as in his life, Williams could be grotesquely excessive and sloppy.
In his review in The New York Times, Ben Brantley called it a " deeply felt revival " and a " revitalizing production of a play often dismissed as a soggy period piece " and added, " Ms. Merkerson allows a kind of intimate access traditionally afforded by cinematic close-ups, when the camera finds shades of meaning in impassive faces.
Untrained in song and dance, she still impressed New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley, who wrote: " Ms. Griffith is a sensational Roxie, possibly the most convincing I have seen " and " vultures who were expecting to see Ms. Griffith stumble ... will have to look elsewhere ".
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Lea Delaria's performance as Hildy the taxi driver ( and especially her all-stops-out rendition of " I Can Cook, Too ") won wide praise, with Ben Brantley writing " Working through the saucy double-entendres and scat embellishments of I Can Cook Too, Hildy's mating call of a solo, Ms. DeLaria makes an obliging captive of anyone watching her.
New York Times contributor Ben Brantley, in review of the production, wrote: " Playing a thoughtless, woman-despising heterosexual, Mr. McCormack isn't much different from when he was playing a thoughtful, woman-worshiping homosexual.
In his rave review in The New York Times, Ben Brantley called Ruehl's performance " masterly ".
New York Times theatre critic Ben Brantley called it a "... savvy, sassy and eminently likable ... breakthrough musical ", and compared its potential long-term influence to West Side Story and The King and I.
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Ben Brantley of the New York Times recalled: " Its book was strained and muddled, most critics agreed ; its big production numbers were simply cumbersome.
" production for The New York Times, Ben Brantley wrote that, despite its famous creators, " the show still has the incomplete feeling of a work that never quite meets its own aspirations ... A tale of buffoonish gangsters trying to muscle in on the music industry.
Ben Brantley of The New York Times panned the show, calling it an " indisputably bogus show ", but praised Jackman's performance.
Says New York Times critic Ben Brantley, “ I found myself holding on to what these actors had to say as if I were a 5-year-old at bedtime being introduced to ‘ The Arabian Nights .’”
) The production on Broadway received some rave reviews including such statements as " McPherson is quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation " from Ben Brantley at the New York Times and " Succinct, startling and eerie, and the funniest McPherson play to date " from the Observer.
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Joseph Rosenblum, reviewing Ben Yagoda's About Town, a history of the magazine from 1925 to 1985, wrote, "...
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Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.
But in either event he was the wrong man for the kind of case outlined by Ben Gurion and set forth in the indictment.
Horton Smith of Detroit, a former president of the Professional Golfers Association, will receive the Ben Hogan Trophy for his comeback following a recent illness.
On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.
Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.
* 1976 – Ben Gibbard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, and ¡ All-Time Quarterback!
* 1858 – After the original Big Ben, a 14. 5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13. 76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
Twenty-eight members signed Abba Mari's letter of approval ; the others, under Tibbon's leadership, addressed another letter to Ben Adret, rebuking him and his colleagues for condemning a whole community without knowledge of the local conditions.
Encouraged, however, by letters signed by the rabbis of Argentière and Lunel, and particularly by the support of Kalonymus ben Todros, the nasi of Narbonne, and of the eminent Talmudist Asheri of Toledo, Ben Adret issued a decree, signed by thirty-three rabbis of Barcelona, excommunicating those who should, within the next fifty years, study physics or metaphysics before their thirtieth year of age ( basing his action on the principle laid down by Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed part one chapter 34 ), and had the order promulgated in the synagogue on Sabbath, July 26, 1305.
Josiah wanted Ben to attend school with the clergy, but only had enough money to send him to school for two years.
* The Sons of Ben soccer supporters club for the Philadelphia Union
In his article Observations on the marital metaphor of YHWH and Israel in its ancient Israelite context: general considerations and particular images in Hosea 1. 2, Ben Zvi describes the role of the Gomer in the marriage metaphor as one of the “ central attributes of the ideological image of a human marriage that was shared by the male authorship and the primary and intended male readership as building blocks for their imagining of the relationship .”
The main relief presenters are Martine Croxall, Gavin Esler ( BBC News at Five ), Sophie Long ( mainly weekday afternoons ), Rachel Schofield ( Monday mornings ), Tim Willcox and Julian Worricker ( Friday afternoons ), while Fiona Armstrong, Ellie Crisell, Ben Geoghagen, Roger Johnson, Kasia Madera, Chris Rogers, Babita Sharma, Julia Somerville, Sue Thearle and Carole Walker also fill in for regular presenters.
The presenters often have expertise in the story they are sent to cover, for example, former Paris correspondent Jon Sopel presented coverage of the 2007 French presidential elections, while channel presenters and former reporters Ben Brown and Clive Myrie were dispatched to Cairo and Tripoli during the Middle East uprisings.
* Navigation on Ben Nevis Advice for people walking up Ben Nevis – available as leaflet in the town.
Aside from Who Dey, the team also has the Cincinnati Ben – Gals, the team's cheerleading squad, which is known for having Laura Vikmanis, the oldest cheerleader in league history.
Shapiro made multiple trades: Cliff Lee and Ben Francisco to the Philadelphia Phillies for prospects Jason Knapp, Carlos Carrasco, Jason Donald and Lou Marson ; Victor Martinez to the Boston Red Sox for prospects Bryan Price, Nick Hagadone and Justin Masterson ; Ryan Garko to the Texas Rangers for Scott Barnes ; and Kelly Shoppach to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for Mitch Talbot.
Ben Rosen provided the venture capital financing for the fledging company and served as chairman of the board for 18 years from 1983 until September 28, 2000, when he retired and was succeeded by Michael Capellas who served as the last Chairman and CEO until its merger with HP.
In 2003, she reprised her role as Dylan Sanders in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in Olive, the Other Reindeer and appeared with Ben Stiller in Duplex in 2003.
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