After doing it on Broadway night after night, I can attest to its power: Even if you know what's coming, you want to believe that maybe this time things will work out, maybe it will end tragically, maybe the boys will get to the "Place" after all, and then the tears fall when they don't.
Gutenberg's humble book took off not because its early advocates went around waving it in people's faces or attesting to its incredible power but because talented authors took the trouble to master this new way of working and to write great books.
The church is a huge presence in Hollywood and anyone who has visited Los Angeles can attest to its looming power in real estate alone -- starting with its massive Celebrity Centre located on Franklin Avenue, and the enormous blue compound on Sunset Boulevard, which is home to the church's West Coast headquarters.
We then discovered that quite a few clones in our laboratory collection were contaminated with this commensal, attesting to its spreading powers.
The few Democrats who agreed to talk about Norcross attested to his power.
But others attested to the power of an influential mentor.
But live pictures from the scene attested to the power of the blasts.
Brick shells and wooden splinters were all that remained of some homes, and railroad cars toppled from tracks attested to the power of a twister.
Afterward, the schoolkids attested to the transformative powers of TM — which, if their testimony was to be believed, was a treatment not just for stress but for the traumas of adolescence itself.
And it attests to the power of the imagination to soothe and to soar.
"I hope the statue, with its twin in Paisley, will attest to the power of both communities to think of their pasts, during which exceptionally brave and visionary individuals saw to it that freedoms we tend to take for granted were seeded and nurtured," Stoddart said.
