Unlike the tense, 15-minute meeting earlier this week between President-elect George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore, today's meeting in Mr. Lieberman's Senate office had the air of nothing more serious than two old friends who ended up on opposite sides of a spirited touch-football game.
One wishes "Woman" had more fun with the food-as-sex metaphors it toys with, but the director Fina Torres -- whose previous "Celestial Clockwork" was also about legerdemain, appetites and a Latina heroine experiencing dislocation -- has a spirited light touch.
Fina Torres's comedy has a spirited light touch, but, Elvis Mitchell wrote in The New York Times, "one wishes 'Woman' had more fun with the food-as-sex metaphors it toys with".
Then there's his daughter's teacher, Suzanne Farrell, a little different from the rest, but who still has the free spirited touch to her.
It's a welcome, public-spirited touch, inspired by the food allergies of Mr. Fant's 13-year-old son, Patrick, and the restaurant should make more of it: on both of our visits the staff neglected to mention it, and we had to ask.
These spirited touches make her punishments more agonizing.
A study presented last year by Arbor Networks suggesting that traffic flows were moving away from the core of the network touched off a spirited controversy.
In 1978, Rabbi Schindler touched off a spirited and often angry debate within American Judaism when he called on Judaism to undertake an "outreach" program.
During a spirited two-hour interview he touched on modern art, social politics and science fiction — among the books he produced for inspection was the dystopian "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline — as well as music and movies, and movie music.
Brown's proposal, which he has been airing for the past few years in venues ranging from the journal Hospital Practice to USA Today, has touched off a spirited debate, and it's easy to see why.
PAGE C1 A CONTENTIOUS '70S STEW Eagerness and zeal can't overcome an uneven script and flawed execution, but they do occasionally add spark to "... Another Man's Poison," a spirited if underdeveloped play that touches on racism, the Vietnam War and sex.
