What starts out as a fantasy of female empowerment deepens and darkens into an interrogation of power itself, its uses and abuses and what it does to the people who have it.
Esther, like most carnival tales, is also existential, a commentary on the unique and torturous challenges of Jewish history, a fantasy for a people without a land, an interrogation of power and its discontents, and, most of all, a reconsideration of the role and presence of the Jewish God in history.
If there was something strangely familiar about the choice of utensil to viewers of "24," it may be because in season six of that show, in an episode that aired on February 5, 2007, an interrogation session featured the same sort of power drill.
All the car bombs, the suicide bombs, the IEDs, the sectarian killings, the massacres, the photos of torture at Abu Ghraib, the use of power drills in interrogations, the rise of ISIL and their depravity, the beheadings of foreigners on YouTube, and so on, I suppose just elude Miller's moral radar.
Calling it a "tour de force", Hasluck praised its "trenchant satire" which provides "a startling interrogation of dictatorship, religious fundamentalism and abuse of power".
Such spectral interrogation of sleep fragility has predictive power on the order of minutes.
By nature, bulk measurements cannot reveal these differences, whereas interrogation of single cells has the power to yield a wealth of information on single-cell dynamics.
Tarkovsky took this idea, and turned it into a dreamlike interrogation of faith, memory and the transfiguring power of love.
Our solution allows, for the first time, application of the power of NGS to the interrogation of one of the most important and complex sets of human genes.
In addition, they suggest the power of this approach for future interrogation of the origin and consequences of altered DNA RT in ALL.
More broadly they exemplify the power of haploid ESCs for genetic interrogation of developmental processes.
