Once Sorkin's characters walked and talked; now they don't even walk, they simply stand motionless, letting the scene benefit from the majesty of their truth.
Alongside NYT Now and the Paid Posts, the NYT also announced a top-end product called Times Premier, with extra "behind the scenes" benefits and all-content access.
It was easy to remind him about the benefits of living with me, and I knew many of the things I told him were "behind the scenes" benefits that he hadn't thought of.
The Faermans' neighbors now include a bank turned catering hall, the scene of benefits running $500 a person and up.
Villaraigosa's exit from the scene probably benefits Brown the most, but it also opens the race to others, particularly those who are not white liberal males from the north.
Still, nearly half a billion dollars is nothing to sneeze at, and the city has an active startup scene that benefits from close proximity to San Francisco, combined with cheaper rents.
"New buyers who are coming on the scene are benefiting by getting a lot of yacht for the money".
Let's give David Adjmi, who wrote the scene, the benefit of the doubt and assume that he meant his dialogue to duplicate what a naughty 7-year-old might invent on the spot while playing with dolls.
On the down side, virtually every scene would benefit from some pruning, and the title character is the least convincing in the play, at this point more a plot device than a credible woman.
We are drawn into considering urgent questions that involve our society, the world in which we live, and the conduct of those still active on the political scene and benefiting from their murky association with events that have caused so much chaos and so many deaths.
