The major difference between the new "Carrie" and the Broadway production, in Ms. Buckley's view, is that the current director, Stafford Arima, has created a "homogeneity" in tone, design, and performance that makes for "focused, consistent, understandable storytelling".
This is understandable, given the sheer number and the scale of the stations, airports, hotels and public buildings he has created across Guangzhou, Kowloon, Hong Kong and Beijing, not to mention the vast urban masterplans he has developed around the country.
That has created uncertainty.
Which means our patronage has created a different kind of problem: Even absent an actual military footprint, we've been dragged permanently into Egypt's domestic politics, where we're seen — for understandable reasons as well as conspiratorial ones — as the real power behind whatever the state decides to do.
Two world wars have created an understandable horror of large-scale conflict, but an unintended consequence has been the widespread adoption of tactics which make no distinction between soldiers and civilians.
Making his case for retaining close links with Europe, he said the global financial crisis had "created an entirely understandable but dangerous urge to turn inwards".
Still, it is understandable why murders have created both panic and a wave of defiant and vibrant activism.
It's also understandable that veterans have created, supported, and consumed VET TV, given the inadequate mental health counseling and separation services.
But I also sense in her an understandable feeling of deep accomplishment at having created such a center of devotion for future generations.
