"Like many sellers at the very high end now, he feels overextended and wants to get his money out".
Just occasionally the piece feels overextended: one long duet sees Maliphant reverting to default mode where the movement becomes less a flow than a doodle.
Among the chief reasons cited for the ambivalence: The United States has no vital interest in Liberia; the military feels overextended in Iraq and elsewhere; the last African intervention, in Somalia, ended in a debacle; Pentagon officials, in particular, increasingly chafe at noncombat missions.
And while the creator, director and co-author, Yael Farber, has done a fine job of framing these recollections in theatrical terms that provide both variety and unity, the show's ending, a collective ritual in which the actors begrime themselves with the dust of history and then wash it off, feels overextended and strained.
"Do you feel overwhelmed, overextended, and overdrawn?
But some of Mr. Nieporent's associates started to feel he was overextended.
"I feel like, yes, I overextended myself," he said.
"Having been constantly on the road since the beginning of March, the band feel they have somewhat overextended themselves and have mutually decided to conclude their tour at the end of September in Australia," Garbage said on its Web site.
It doesn't seem to occur to her that her mother friends, stuck at home, overextended and underslept, may feel neglected by her, too.
