Guess it's best to tread lightly before passing judgment on Skyler.
Except for the section through Toppenish and the southeastern bypass of Prosser, the highway is lightly traveled passing mainly through rural farmland.
"Let's just pass lightly over the death of my mother, O.K.?" Mr. Hedges asks.
(And let us pass lightly over the forced, Mickey Mouse push for feedback led by the host, Linda Szmyd Monich, which failed to yield a conversation of any substance).
Nobody that I know of has much love for General Chun or approves of his handling of the Kwangju crisis, but Mr. Johnson's eagerness to draw Soviet-American parallels leads him to pass lightly over crucial facts and arguments.
He's not closed or impermeable, but there is a tendency to glide and smooth, to pass lightly from one subject to another, while leaving a degree of complexity under the surface.
(Let us pass lightly over Stella Abrera's stiff, Martha Graham-like contractions of grief as Lady Capulet; is it just me, or do those headdresses get bigger ever year?) And poor Sascha Radetsky resorted to stomping around ineffectually as Paris, before his perfunctory murder in the crypt on the way to the ballet's main death event.
To her credit, Ms Lee does not pass lightly over Wharton's racism, anti-Semitism and anti-feminism, all three prejudices that place her squarely in the company of those she satirised.Wharton divorced in 1913, but, like Newland Archer in "The Age of Innocence", a story of thwarted love, she had already missed the "flower of life".
And let us pass lightly over the sinuous, not-nearly-erotic-enough duet from Murray Louis's "Cleopatra" (1976), other than to say that Aaron Selissen retained a miraculous amount of his dignity despite having to perform in shiny purple leggings with gold lacing — thank you, Frank Garcia, for the costume design — as he cozied up behind an equally stoic Kyla Barkin.
