Though her subject is not light -- it is in fact death, and the hold the dead have upon the living -- her method is subtraction, lightness, the quick, telling stroke.
But all three men ricochet gamely among roles, each bringing a caricaturist's eye for the telling broad stroke.
It wasn't a great stroke, tell the truth, but it was a proper poser down the glacial green, and you can't really chastise the player too much for the miss.
And what does a stroke tell us about the way our brains work?
I blogged on my cerebral misadventure as it unfolded, as some may recall, but only got around to writing up an article about it after Ben Lillie, who left high-energy physics to focus on science storytelling and co-created Story Collider, invited me to tell my stroke tale as part of a special story slam in Brooklyn focused on brain science.
But the beguiling charm of Mr. Greenspan's characters, drawn in light but telling brush strokes, keeps you from examining the play's peculiarities with too harsh an eye.
The American, who was serving at speeds of up to 125mph, earned a third-round meeting with Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova thanks to a decisive victory over Santonja, whose double-handed grip on both flanks looked clumsy but did not prevent her hitting some telling ground strokes.
Mom's debilitating headaches are the byproduct of a stroke she told no one about.
Whatever one's quarrels with Brooks's unconscionable politics, her outspoken lesbian presence in don't-ask-don't-tell Washington is a stroke of poetic justice.
Mr. Lay, who could not appear because he suffered a stroke several months ago, told the grand jury last year that he saw two men parked near the church at close to 1 a.m. about two weeks before the bombing.
