One of the most familiar comments I hear from audiences after Fun Home begins "My family was nothing like this," and usually continues, "but I mean, my family was exactly like this". For all the singular aspects of Alison's story, the thing that has been uniting very disparate groups of people in our audience night after night is precisely its universality.
The hardiest plants prepare for this process through the combination of hot days and cold nights - precisely the weather you might get in late summer and autumn.
Eventually I realized that the thrill of "Blue Nights" is precisely the thrill of those last two minutes in the air: the surge of expectation that comes as the wing flaps drop, the air brakes rise and the plane grinds forward, rocking gently, back and forth, over the water.
He leaves a body for the detectives every night at precisely 11 p.m., with clues on where to find the next one.
In these communities, people are generally most dependent on their settlement fortifications at night, when they are home and asleep; yet the cover of night is precisely when settlement fortifications are at their most vulnerable to penetration.
So each night, at precisely 8 30, the nuns take turns striking a large gong with a wooden mallet and reciting a "hell-breaking mantra" to release them from their pain.
When playing party host, he apparently gathers ideas for décor and for parlor games from the " 'Eyes Wide Shut' Guide to At-Home Entertaining". And "I Am the Night" is precisely the sort of Los Angeles noir that encourages his menace to loom above the hills like Noah Cross in "Chinatown". "Justice in this town is a protection racket," someone says.
Last night he provided precisely that.
In the US, late-night TV means precisely that.
It wasn't as if I had better things to do with my Thursday nights, but that was precisely why I didn't need any additional assistance soaking my pillow with salty tears as I fell asleep to the 11 o'clock news.
"Two kinds of boldness blinking, throat open for a cockcrow, come together to create a blood-stained circus," Kerr wrote, "the most unabashed dramatic outburst we have had since 'Long Day's Journey Into Night.' " This is precisely the spirit that Ms. Smith's vigorous staging seeks out, often successfully.
