Ms. Peet writes easily flowing dialogue, laced with biting humor and a brash streak of vulgarity.
Resin transfer molding, or RTM, is a composites processing method that offers a high potential for tailorability but is currently limited to low-viscosity (easily flowing) thermosetting polymers.
In Edith Grossman's easily flowing translation, it is, like the others ("In the Palm of Darkness" and "The Messenger"), symbolically and emotionally charged.
And he does so with such an easily flowing narrative, such a becoming combination of wit and preci sion, that one quickly forgets that he is writing a book without hero, villain, ax to grind, climax or denouement.
Each vignette in this easily flowing, intermissionless show, directed by Scott Ellis, has its own title (projected in supertitles), establishing the characters' ages and a new injury one or the other has sustained, as in "Eight: Face Split Open" and "Twenty-Three: Eye Blown Out".
Evidence of the downturn is everywhere -- from the empty parking lots in front of office parks that are only a few years old, to the quiet atmosphere of downtown San Jose and the easily flowing traffic along freeways that were once congested.
