"I'm going to show you all my dance moves," one man-doll hears himself say.
George Steinbrenner can move one man (the center fielder Johnny Damon) the 210 miles from Boston to New York for $52 million, but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is unable to move millions of New Yorkers for less than $20 million ("In Final Hours, M.T.A. Took a Big Risk on Pensions," news article, Dec. 21).
In that message, which dealt at length with the inspirational power of Christian charity, he spoke of how the care showed by nuns toward an injured person who staggered into a church service in the South Bronx had so moved one man who saw it that he later became a priest, ordained by Archbishop Egan when he was bishop of Bridgeport, Conn.
Some of the calls are moving, one man sounding close to breaking down as he describes his wife's debts, the result of what began as a fondness for internet bingo, and it isn't long before O'Brien is telling his audience sombrely that he is "struggling to hang on to his libertarian credo" so far as betting machines go (callers have identified these as a particular problem).
"Rakhine state officials ordered us to move," one man told me.
Although screened last November, there's a welcome rerelease for Never Apologize, a rollicking, tenderly moving one-man show by Malcolm McDowell recalling his relationship with Lindsay Anderson.
But by the end, Hodge moves one with his image of a man as trapped and immured as any Beckett hero.
Silently, she moves from one man to the next, rolling them over with a foot, raising them to their feet, taking them in their sleep in a reversed pantomime, female-male rape.
Walking on his toes and gloved hands, his bottom skyward, the gray-haired and muscular man moved one step every five seconds or so, grunting each time.
"It's moving again," one man says.
