Electronic trading maybe sleeker and faster, but the openoutcry system with its face-to-face drama and longstanding traditions definitely hasmore visual appeal.
What Showtime promised was an in-your-face drama told from the perspectives of gay people, no apologies, no straight characters serving as go-betweens.
Along with Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking, Sarah Kane's Blasted, Jez Butterworth's Mojo and Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing, Dealer's Choice heralded the dawn of a loose dramatic movement which earned the title "in-yer-face" drama.
These scenes have a majestically tense theatricality, and, at the same time, the director transfigures aspects of the closed-door and face-to-face drama with vast, romantic, eerie, and haunted cityscapes that raise the action to a high symbolic pitch.
The eventual biodegradation of in-yer-face drama into plays about young people shooting up in south London flats has tended to obscure the fact that Sarah Kane's Blasted is about the Bosnian war and Gregory Burke's Gagarin Way about anti-capitalist protesters.
Whether you love them or hate them, Broadway musicals are known for their bombastic dramatics, and the upcoming film adaptation of 'Les Miserables,' the world's longest running musical, could take in-your-face drama to new heights by releasing the film in 3D.
Initially, "NBC's rivals may have the advantage," Mr. Rash predicted, as Mr. Leno faces dramas on ABC and CBS like "CSI: Miami," "The Mentalist" and "Private Practice".
Mode differences were clearly demarcated by use of barrier games (where the dialogue occurred back-to-back rather than face-to-face) and drama (where the Mode changed completely as the children entered into rôle).
The role was for The Last Face, a drama that Penn is shooting in South Africa, starring Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem as doctors who fall in love.
Even so, Prime Minister Enrico Letta of Italy hailed the agreement as sign of solidarity with his country after "much lack of attention to face the drama of the Mediterranean".
