One might well expect the first act of the Republican Congress to be the passage of legislation repealing Obamacare, and the first act of the Democratic president to be vetoing the legislation.
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The record's despondency is most pronounced in its first act.
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Your first act of penance is to watch the above.
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The first act is filled with an exhilarating group dance.
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The walls on the revolve fell during the first act.
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How do you write that first act in one night?
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She brings down the first act curtain with coy quiet.
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So, our first act will be to restore France's frontiers.
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And why does Juan disappear altogether following the first act?
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"And the first act break is always at—" Whitman says.
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The Cold War provided the setting for the first act.
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We can hear the first act, Jackie Hayes, on stage.
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The first act is almost a whole opera in itself.
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So, our first act will be to restore France's frontiers.
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It's the first act of empowerment we take as a creator.
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My first act was to start hiring people into my department.
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His first act as president-elect was to take a selfie.
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Putting it in the ground was our first act as homeowners.
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They're firing Gwyneth Paltrow in the first act of Sliding Doors.
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But according to Roy, it's the first act of a tragedy.
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But those questions raised in the first act remain stubbornly unaddressed.
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That last image comes at the end of the first act.
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The House first passed the Families First Act early Saturday morning.
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The first act is biography; the second is a talking circle.gloriatheplay.
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MICHAEL COOPER Her wounded rage in the first act is painful.
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"I saw the first act of 'Cats' a lot," he said.
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I would always figure out when the first act was over.
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I didn't see the first act of "Die Walküre," by Wagner.
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Salvini's first act was to close Italy's ports to NGO ships.
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The first act of their show was rewritten on the fly.
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The first act unfolds on a modern warship of indeterminate nationality.
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She is the character who drives the first act of the game.
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This is far from Ryan and Bragg's first act of animal kindness.
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My first act of womanhood was a commitment to my economic security.
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"Perhaps the Consumers First Act can be taken up by them, too."
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Fallen Kingdom's first act feels like a Jurassic Park greatest-hits reel.
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The first act, The Sands of Fate, is coming later this month.
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She has so many facets of her personality in the first act.
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EDT: President Trump signs the Taxpayer First Act in the Oval Office.
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Ms. May's first act was a ruthless reshuffle of her predecessor's team.
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That's a red herring somewhere near the end of the first act.
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The first act tends toward modal tonality, with floridly expressive vocal lines.
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Its first act poses an intriguing mystery: What is this strange scene?
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It was that first act of protest that got the ball rolling.
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And that's just in the satirical lark that is the first act.
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The specifics of Melanie's situation are laid out in the first act.
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But Jones' former wife claims the slaying wasn't his first act of violence.
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Trump has promised that repealing Obamacare would be his first act in office.
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Midway through Suicide Squad's first act, Flagg introduces a supervillain known as Slipknot.
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For the first act or so, Soderbergh teases the audience with the possibilities.
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"Meditation is just the first act," says Ross Hoffman, Headspace's chief business officer.
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The Families of Fallen Service Members First Act will help right this wrong.
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It's the best first act for a startup one can possibly hope for.
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The first ACT UP meeting, which I wasn't at, had over 300 people.
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But for his first act of grown-up freedom, Moss ignores his family.
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It simmered all through the first act and was dished out during intermission.
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South Carolina adopted its first "Act to Prevent Runaways" as early as 19503.
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In the first act, one audience member privately listens to an audio track.
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If the first act is wonderfully clear and dramatic, the second is magical.
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It pays off the things that are set up in the first act.
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So her first act is to make 50 act as a passing grade.
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Not until halfway through the first act could one differentiate among the characters.
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It was like 90 pages and not even barely through the first act.
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After such talk, after such bravado, he messed up on his first act.
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He introduced it last year, and it's called the Empowering Patients First Act.
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"You're a mess in the first act, going on instinct and bravado," she said.
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Before I could investigate the matter more thoroughly, however, the evening's first act began.
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All this talk about barf in the first act and not one single puker!
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And, it just so happens that the first one is the entire first act.
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If the play's first act is toothless satire, its second is rip-roaring farce.
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That sounds like a lot of setup, but it isn't even Fallout's first act.
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Its first act ends lamely, and there's too little panache to its dance sequences.
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"It's Raining Men" is the opener, and "I Will Survive" ends the first act.
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Still, the movement of the first act is from mistrust and recrimination to solidarity.
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Quantum Break looks the part, before you've so much as finished its first act.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda took his son to see the first act over the weekend.
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The outpouring of grief for Qassim Suleimani is the country's first act of retaliation.
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One question that looms over the first act — Should they all move in together?
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How still and quiet the baby was, we all marveled after the first act.
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In the first act, eight skillful actors describe events leading up to the explosion.
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In the first act, he's furious Debbie doesn't sleep with him on their first date.
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Before the first act is over, he's established himself as a reckless, greedy, amoral ass.
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At one point in The Wailing's first act, a character is inexplicably struck by lightning.
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Catalina Combs, Black Girls Nerds The first act of Captain Marvel is a bit lackluster.
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The major twist that comes in the closing scene of the first act is shocking.
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A bill called the Taxpayer First Act was sailing toward almost unanimous approval in Congress.
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Trump had indicated that his first act would be to sign the global gag rule.
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Lu confronts Polo in the bathroom of Barceló in the first act of the finale.
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We call on our colleagues, regardless of party, to expand upon the Families First Act.
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It was in the fraternity that I did my first act of community service volunteering.
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Price's Empowering Patients First Act would create a refundable tax credit for health insurance coverage.
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"I don't think it's any coincidence that [was] his first really good first act," Brennan says.
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During the televised broadcast, the show will also simul-stream the first act via Facebook Live.
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It was at the end of the first act, not at the end of the show.
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The first act of Venom suggests we're in for one of the worst films of 2018.
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Monday, the first act of the show will be available to stream live on VH1.com.
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For example, during the healthcare reform debate in 85033, he introduced the Empowering Patients First Act.
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The first act grinds slowly into gear as these facts and others are set before us.
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At Ascot, near the end of the first act, Higgins introduces her to his mother, Mrs.
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The first act tends toward waywardness, and while it runs just an hour, it feels longer.
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The first act is set in a pristine, doll-house-like girl's bedroom, bedecked in white.
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This is standard "first act of a war movie" stuff, but it's standard because it works.
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I almost fell asleep during the first act, due to the long wait for a ticket.
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The queens changed out of their meet-and-greet looks and into their first-act costumes.
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Mr. Systrom returned on Monday from a parental leave and his first act was to quit.
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"At the end of the first act, I realized I couldn't stand it," Ms. Lewis continued.
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But there was a moment toward the end of the first act that made me wonder.
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KRZ originally debuted in 2011 as a Kickstarter project, and its first act launched in 2013.
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Price has sponsored, every year since 2009, his comprehensive replacement plan, the Empowering Patients First Act.
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Kim Jong Un's first act opens with a major "Missiles 'R' Us" military parade on Feb.
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Or that this rendition adds an improvised divertimento about border walls midway through the first act.
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The first act of the play is staged through a series of couples exploring the therapy.
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In its first act, Fairview appears to be a warm-hearted if slightly dated family comedy.
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ProPublica's Justin Elliott reported that the Taxpayer First Act, sponsored in the House by Democratic Rep.
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The House Ways and Means Committee, led by Massachusetts Democrat, Richard Neal, passed the Taxpayer First Act.
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Civil Wars was the first act that was Americana leaning that I absolutely fell in love with.
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As the first act progressed, it was hard to understand why Mr. Mazzagatti took such languid tempos.
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And for its first act, "Our Mother's Brief Affair" provides an uncannily perceptive portrait of colliding reminiscences.
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The first act of Lynn Root's book, adapted by the director, Ruben Santiago-Hudson and the Encores!
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By the end of the first act, it became hard to keep track of the different guises.
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Ruben's first act of kindness was to take food to first responders stationed outside of the Walmart.
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Throughout the movie's first act, we come to realize Jerome committed a horrific murder, killing his wife.
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The first act of the newly empowered Federal Trade Commission was to yank DNP from pharmacy shelves.
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His Empowering Patients First Act would replace the ACA with a series of age-adjusted tax credits.
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The first act takes place at the Cadogan Hotel where Oscar hides after his libel action collapses.
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That's the sort of first-act fodder that shows from Castle to SVU have made use of.
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So this will be the first act of what's likely to be a very, very long process.
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With Mendes reading the stage directions, the cast cantered through the first act, then broke for lunch.
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The Taxpayer First Act, which has bipartisan support, would address many of the IRS's consumer-facing problems.
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I don't want to see carriages on stage or a chorus dancing around in the first act.
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The Bourgeois Deal is, briefly, this: In the first act, let me try this or that improvement.
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They now live in a squalid room, which the fantasy world of the first act shuts out.
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The entire first act is the end of the day, the moment when the birds go quiet.
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Aleksandrs Antonenko began the performance as Samson, but labored and coughed his way through the first act.
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It's the first act of something sweet that you do together as a couple after the ceremony.
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It's lively and sensibly silly enough to take a child to, at least for its first act.
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But this first act lacks full power, with the singing growing monotonous as the stage constantly rotates.
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She put forth a bipartisan bill, the "Put Trafficking Victims First Act of 2019" (House Resolution 507).
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It was not the first act of violence to be broadcast in real-time on social media.
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The Daily Show will also simulcast the first act of its Election Day live show at 11 p.m.
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It definitely doesn't sound like the first act of a Syfy movie or a shelved Stephen King novel.
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And their first act would be a vicious fight between the establishment and the increasingly invigorated far left.
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The only problem: the first act lights a bunch of fuses, but only a few erupt into fireworks.
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I'd do the first act and then we'd stop and we'd take the food out of the pan.
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Yesterday's massacre is not the first act of terror you incited against a minority group in our country.
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"Looking back now I think that was my first act of journalism," David says, of his library visits.
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The climactic first-act dance number, "Au Mirliton," refers to the nightclub run by Aristide Bruant (Jamie Jackson).
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Mr. Zien remembered seeing people leaving in droves after the first act when it played in Los Angeles.
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While Pure Heroine, her debut, was an incredible first act, this one is poised to be even better.
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"[It is] their first act right out of the gate," Scarborough said of the new GOP-led Congress.
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Board of Education that public schools had to be desegregated — ends only the first act of the opera.
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For at least its first act, Martyna Majok's new play "queens" — uncapitalized for unknown reasons — is a knockout.
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In the world of shark movies, if you create an undead demon sharktopus, that's just the first act.
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The first act, in the aftermath of the second world war, brought computing to governments and big corporations.
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"Last night, he agree(d) to go out to do his first act of kindness," Gandarilla said Monday.
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In the first act, set largely in a country-crossing train, Bella spends much of her time seated.
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When Mr. Kaufmann strode onstage to stop a drunken riot in the first act, he seemed almost bored.
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A love ballad ("When I Have a Boy of My Own") ends the first act with a kiss.
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Konta, a mere 10 months younger than Wozniacki, is still in the first act of her tennis life.
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Her most famous aria, at the end of the first act, is about wanting to stop the clocks.
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This, too, seemed to be a national drama where all was said and done in the first act.
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In his first act in his new role, Mr. Boente announced that he was rescinding Ms. Yates's order.
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The first act [the pilot] is done, and then you can make little compartments [for the other acts].
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I spent the first act of the show in a makeshift seat behind the orchestra, fighting back distraction.
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His first act as president was to appoint the prime minister of Sri Lanka: His brother Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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The first act, in which Vera angles for a role, is in the style of a screwball comedy.
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The stronger first act plays out during a church service at which Lauren attempts to voice her concerns.
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"I knew 18 minutes in is the first act break, they can't kiss before 10 minutes in," Schaler says.
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That's probably intentional, but it doesn't change the fact that a rocky first act threatens to drive away newcomers.
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The production reaches its high point in two late first-act numbers, in which shoe folk meet show folk.
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Johnson has insisted that his first act will be to seek to renegotiate a Brexit deal with EU leaders.
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Its first act was to ostentatiously remove portraits of Chávez and Bolívar from the walls of the National Assembly.
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For example, he said, 'It's a great shame that Lenin doesn't put in an appearance in the first act.
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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) shows a timeline of the Patient First Act during a press conference on Monday.
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No, the driving concept behind Price's Empowering Patients First Act is protecting the choices of patients who have money.
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The Price bill, the Empowering Patients First Act, would weaken many protections for consumers in the Affordable Care Act.
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And yet there is a bagginess to that first act, and a flatness to the climax of the second.
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In his first act as mayor, Mr. Gilliam tried to give himself a salary of $140,000 — a $37,000 raise.
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During the first act of the finale, Kylie talks with mom Kris Jenner about how she's handling the scandal.
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Thinking about this, the idea that Claire is the villain of the first act of this season gains traction.
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The first act ends with the heroine's madness and death, one of the most celebrated acting scenes in ballet.
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In 2200 her peasant girl was "gay and robust" in the first act of a performance, Mr. Martin wrote.
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During its first act, "Young Man" had me thinking that it had perhaps been overpraised during its early outings.
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Because, you know, I will try to sing it [Rodolfo's sweeping first-act aria, "Che gelida manina"] in key.
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Sleuthing deduced news would be coming today, seven years after the original release of Kentucky Route Zero's first act.
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The first act, in which Mr. Brown wears a tidy brown suit, is the more practical, hands-on part.
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A first-act meltdown merely hints at the emotional and physical carnage that will ensue by the final curtain.
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In the first act, she reads to us from Christopher's diarylike account, which he has evidently written at her request.
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The stress on the desultory, punctuated by antic gestures from Lopakhin and the servants, makes the first act agonizingly long.
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This is a notably less harsh penalty than the one that Price suggested in his 2603 Empowering Patients First Act.
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Now in the care of Guardians of Rescue, the group's first act was to free the pooch of his chains.
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But for the upcoming Experience + Innocence tour, they became the first act to sell all available tickets through Verified Fan.
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After his victory, Mr Morsi's first act was to address a crowd in Tahrir Square, the heart of the revolution.
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They performed their first act together that night, using the same routines they had practiced earlier at the Havana-Madrid.
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There's a bipartisan effort currently underway in Congress, known as Taxpayer First Act, to make the Free File program permanent.
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If looking is the first act of being political, it is our responsibility to cultivate nuance in how we look.
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In the earlier film, the basic structure of the story is simple, and typical: In the first act, aliens arrive.
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The G-6900 summit was the first act in a battle for the 2628st century values of the global economy.
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Eddie The Eagle's first act is its best, where the humor and the humanity is clearest and fastest to arrive.
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But Tyrion's first act as Hand of the King was to reward a mercenary who blackmailed him and his brother!
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He promised his first act as "president" would be to visit Gaza and heal a decade-old rift between Palestinians.
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Did I mention that the human heart, and its spiritual weight, is also a dominant motif of that first act?
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In the first act, the dominant presence is the visual design, by the Leipzig artists Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy.
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The game's first act involves scouring the large open world for lost tribe members and getting the band back together.
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" Chorus members had said they would stage a strike during the first act of Friday's performance of Philip Glass's "Akhnaten.
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I stumbled upon the first ACT UP demonstration a few weeks later on my way to work on Wall Street.
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The whole pun is based on [the fact that] the Trump administration's first act was to gut all science [funding].
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The entire film is great, but the representation of Marines in the first act of the film is (mostly) accurate.
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Even the performance of "Much Ado About Nothing" at Shakespeare in the Park was canceled midway through the first act.
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At the end of the first act, Candide undertakes his journey to Paraguay in a rubber dinghy on choppy seas.
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But the play is most fun when it moves at high speed, and a languor overcomes the slack first act.
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Mr. Trump is probably referring to Ms. Rosen's earlier vote against a different bill, the Veterans Affairs Accountability First Act.
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While it was similar to the legislation that eventually became law, the Accountability First act included a shorter appeals process.
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In the first act, after her second husband commits suicide, she starts packing up all her stuff in the flat.
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There was a lot of chatter about H.R. 2628, the Families First Act, including a provision for paid sick leave.
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He shortened some colorful, comic scenes in the first act involving Cio-Cio-San's relatives, and tightened her suicide scene.
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In April, the House unanimously passed the Taxpayer First Act, including a provision to codify the IRS Free File Program.
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Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin introduced the Farmers First Act, which would establish a stress assistance network for farmers and ranchers.
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But in his review for The Times, A. O. Scott wrote that the film's first act holds some tonal surprises.
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The first act, a performance of the famous show tune "Waiting for Robert E. Lee," featured Vereen in blackface makeup.
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Peckover insists on calling the end of Better Watch Out's first act "a million-dollar twist," and it is pretty good.
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For a potential preview, read up on the Empowering Patients First Act, the plan Price submitted to Congress back in 2015.
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In the first act of Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa has to fight for his new crown in a traditional ceremony.
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It's very much a first act, chronicling the events that lead directly to you taking on the role of Vader's apprentice.
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Price is the author of the most detailed Obamacare replacement I've read to date, the 242-page Empowering Patients First Act.
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The first act stretches from 1961 to 19803, when the nation saw a steady rise in murders and other major crimes.
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The first act portrays a Christmas party at which Clara receives an enchanted nutcracker from Drosselmeyer, her magical toy-making godfather.
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Mulvaney's first act at CFPB was to tell his new employees to cease any attempt to impose penalties on financial institutions.
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The legislation, called the Taxpayer First Act of 2019, includes a host of targeted provisions aimed at modernizing the IRS's operations.
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The scene between them that ends the first act is a knockout, a ravishment of the senses that makes motivation moot.
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Simba's exile feels like a natural act break because it is: It's the end of the first act in the movie.
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During the entire first act, Ms. Hamilton meditates and prays "just to clear out my channels and realign myself," she said.
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She said that she had been a mediocre student in elementary school and that her first ACT score had been unimpressive.
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The Empowering Patients First Act does less for those who need help most and more for those who need help least.
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In some ways, my travel advice to my wife felt like my first act as a parent to our unborn daughter.
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The first act floats along on a wave of silliness, with cooking taking place only haphazardly but singing breaking out repeatedly.
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Kentucky Route Zero's first act arrived in 2707, and the gaps between episodes began to span longer than a few months.
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He also said a promised tax cut for the middle class would be his first act in government if re-elected.
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Battogtokh strides on in the first act, lobbing medicine balls as easily as you or I might chuck a hacky sack.
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In the first act, before Election Day, Obama was faced with evidence that Russia was trying to help Donald Trump win.
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The band has repeatedly stated their desire to be the first act onstage when the restored hall reopens to the general public.
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The episode's character-driven first act offers a fittingly melancholic portrait of someone using an imaginary relationship to handle loss and anxiety.
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Midway through the first act, Streisand interprets Carole King's "Being at War with Each Other" from the singer-songwriter's 1973 album Fantasy.
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Brad Pitt — divorcé and amateur potter Brad Pitt — appears on screen for just a second in the first act of the movie.
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Tom Price, is the author of the most detailed Obamacare replacement I've read to date, the 242-page Empowering Patients First Act.
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Mr Guaidó must continue to make clear that, should he exercise power, his first act will be to arrange for free elections.
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They did not offer specifics for the "Family First Act," but their staffers said the money would likely come from existing funds.
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And John-Michael Lyles, as a young military courier, delivers the elegiac soldier's song that concludes the first act with haunting simplicity.
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If that first act combines with other factors to produce a death, and the other factors alone would not have done so?
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Trouble is, you can see that he's used up nearly all of his panels and he's still somewhere in the first act.
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There are plenty of basic sociopolitical problems with this setup, but, like, it's at least an efficient first act of a movie.
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They used 77 rolls of gold leaf to gild Sant'Andrea della Valle, the dazzling Baroque church where the first act is set.
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And we're not suggesting taxpayers reimburse Fortune 500 companies for offering this benefit, as the Families First Act does for smaller employers.
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All get drawn into what we discover late in the first act is the musical's main subject: the trauma of rape culture.
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Dinner, dancing and fireworks will follow, but my friend and wingman, Ricky, and I have time to catch only the first act.
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Many of the people with the best seats would leave after the first act, and they would give me these $300 tickets.
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The first act of the game launched back in 27, with subsequent acts — and a few detours — released in the intervening years.
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That uncertainty was on display Tuesday night when Iran fired missiles at American forces in Iraq, in its first act of retaliation.
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The ideas were ultimately included in a large, bipartisan bill called the "Taxpayer First Act" with a wide range of IRS reforms.
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He staged the first-act finale two ways — one for cast members at ease doffing their costumes, one for those less comfortable.
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If he did, I believed his first act of freedom would be to obtain a weapon and kill me in my sleep.
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The entire first act feels like writers doing the bare minimum to set themselves up for the reveal that — oh my gosh!
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He is the author of the Empowering Patients First Act, one of the most thorough and detailed proposals to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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It is one thing to do that on the campaign trail, quite another to embrace it fully in your first act as President.
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But he doesn't want to be known as the president whose first act was to snatch away affordable insurance from millions of Americans.
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Loewe also told police it wasn't the first act of domestic violence, noting that he "gets violent very quickly," according to the affidavit.
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Though the film eventually highlights more of Sitting Bull, the first act does establish that Catherine is the entry point into this story.
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This is not the first instance of racist and anti-Semitic vandalism at Columbia's Teachers College — or the first act targeted at Midlarsky.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It may well be the first act of vandalism to occur in the realm of augmented reality.
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What's clear is that MoviePass represents the first act in an ongoing cultural shift in how we see movies on the big screen.
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He also introduced a comprehensive health care bill of his own, the Empowering Patients First Act of 2015, that expanded health savings accounts.
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The prelude to the first act is used as the music in a recent Russian film, "Leviathan", and it sounds best when blasted.
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Aided by stunning animation (more on that later), Into the Spider-Verse champions fast-paced, side-splittingly funny dialogue throughout its first act.
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The first act, a piano-anchored waltz, swoons as if dancing in the moonlight, while the third is a triumphant horn-driven climax.
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After the first act of vandalism, a post on RETNA's IG appeared to take credit for the graffiti ... but it was later deleted.
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And I got to see the first act of the shows that I worked, like 'Chicago,' 'Billy Elliot,' and 'Phantom of the Opera.
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In his first act as secretary of State, Pompeo will leave for Brussels to attend a meeting of NATO foreign ministers this week.
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As important, it also blends beautifully with Ms. Erivo's, and their climactic first-act duet becomes a tender, erotic intermingling of kindred spirits.
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He didn't commit the first act of vandalism, but he picks up a can of red paint and angrily defaces a teacher's driveway.
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Such actions, prosecutors alleged, were violations of state ethics rules that Mr. Hubbard himself had pushed through in his first act as speaker.
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Leading Senate tax-writers have also previously offered IRS reform bills in recent years that have some overlap with the Taxpayer First Act.
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The election's first act — the primary contests, when the two main parties select their ultimate candidates — attracts an unusual degree of international scrutiny.
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My first act of political civil disobedience was in 1945 during the post-war election, so I am interested in parties and groups.
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This, mind you, is all in the zippy first act, and how much better the production would have been had it ended there.
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We see in the first act that Tony puts a glass used by some black workmen who visit his house in the trash.
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He too plans to repeal Canada's carbon price — it's the first act he has promised as prime minister should he win in October.
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He'll have his own channel on the platform, but his first act will be to bring the Ultimate Rap League (URL) to Caffeine.
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And if you don't see the opening storm, and the things that happen in the first act, it's actually a very strange opera.
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A training scheme, First Act, developed at the National Theater of Strasbourg, has trained more than 80 actors from underrepresented backgrounds since 2015.
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Chewie has been so poorly served by Star Wars movies, why wouldn't his death exist largely to propel a first act plot point?
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If Roy Moore is elected tonight, his first act as a United States senator may be to testify before the Senate Ethics Committee.
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Sunday, with the valley filled with smoke and fire, it appeared to be the stage for the first act of a new war.
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Barrett's 1992 book, Trump: The Deals and the Downfall, is the gold standard account of Trump's first act in real estate and business.
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Other than the layoffs Dorsey instituted as almost his first act as CEO, there has been no evidence of faster or more disciplined execution.
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In 2013, he attended a reading of the first act at Vassar College and was "in a puddle" of tears by the second song.
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But the move could eventually be seen, in hindsight, as the first act in a series of measures that could boot Trump from office.
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Cabana said the market has been watching how the new Congress has been dealing with repealing Obamacare, its first act of the new session.
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Roughneck's broken, broad-nosed protagonist beats a bar patron senseless in the snowy present-day fictional town of Pimitamon during a violent first act.
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However, the Senate is simultaneously considering a bipartisan bill, the Taxpayer First Act, which would make the IRS and the Free File Alliance permanent.
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Tucked into the first act, the moment is brief, subtle, and to this day, I find it unrivaled in terms of charm and efficiency.
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There's even a moment, shortly before the climactic murder that ends the first act, when a few desiccated leaves flutter wanly to the stage.
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And my first act as owner, I have renamed my town to Gay Hell, MI. The only flags allowed to fly are pride. pic.twitter.
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He first heard about Hamilton when he attended a reading of the first act at Vassar College in 2013, and was moved to tears.
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" Reaffirming the group's intention to be the first act to play The Bataclan when it reopens, Hughes emphatically declares, "have to the first group.
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The naked man in question arrives in the first act of "The Punishment Room," as a model in one of Rose's art history courses.
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Boba Fett had only a handful of lines in Empire, and he was promptly killed in the first act of Return of the Jedi.
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Anybody who knows their folklore is going to be pretty clear on what's going on in the first act of Sebastian Gutierrez's Elizabeth Harvest.
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In the first act, before the confessional speechifying gets properly underway, each scene moves energetically into the next, with most of the cast onstage.
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From what I could see for a lot of people here this is very possibly their first engagement and their first act of dissent.
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Bruce Arena's first act with #USMNT should be calling up/starting Jonathan Klinsmann so that he's cap-tied and can't play for Germany pic.twitter.
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It's such a terrible idea that starts to break down in the first act, since Enchantress (Cara Delevigne) is a threat she can't control.
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After meeting the Grand Vizier, he receives a studio on the grounds of an old palace, where his first act is one of destruction.
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The first act is a master class from Granik and her editor, Jane Rizzo, in how to lay the groundwork of your characters' routines.
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Yet they all draw distinctly defined characters who also fit, as they must, within the frame of the painting that the first act conjures.
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Either way, he brings a thrilling fury to the role, and makes of the sword dance that ends the first act an athletic psychodrama.
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Ben Brantley wrote that the show, starring Chris Perfetti as a foundling, offers "bustle, buoyancy and unblinking bawdiness," at least in its first act.
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But after Nijinsky marries one of the company's ballerinas at the end of the first act, Diaghilev goes haywire and so does the play.
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Within hours of the massacre of civilians in Khartoum on June 3, the military's first act was to shut down the internet in Sudan.
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Most of the first act is familiar, but Mr. Ratmansky reinstates a more subtle Bathilde, Albrecht's fiancée (Nelly Kobakhidze), who is drawn to Giselle.
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The first act takes place in 1893 and is set in the garment industry; the second comes 100 years later, during the AIDS crisis.
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The best description of what Mr. Price stands for can be found in a bill he introduced in 2015, the Empowering Patients First Act.
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" He said that after he finished his first big scene in the first act, "I would run up to my room, and just collapse.
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It is he who ends the first act with an anarchic, tear-down-the-house number devoted to the all-American properties of wood.
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The first act is set during Mussolini's regime in the 22007s, the second act in the relatively prosperous 27s, the third in the 22008s.
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That's what occurred at a performance in May when Cynthia Erivo, the show's Tony-winning star, left after the first act because of illness.
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Her choice to help Anton contact his American son became her first act in ages that wasn't motivated by either her American or Soviet handlers.
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Loyal Potterheads know that Ron and Hermione have another son, Hugo, but he isn't old enough yet to attend Hogwarts during the play's first act.
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Then the production improbably tops itself with a first-act closer that makes inspired use of an assembly-line belt and introduces the title characters.
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From their first child to their first grown-up purchase to their first act of rebellion, we want to know how these experiences shaped them.
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Kylie Jenner might just be the queen of Instagram, and it seems she's already enforcing her first act as a monarch: No more Instagram comments.
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When Richard leaves it seems like the first two books were just a first act and Marianne was actually the main character the whole time.
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Chekhov's narrative principle—that a gun hung on the wall in the first act must eventually go off—has become a metaphorical rule of storytelling.
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My first act when I got outside was to turn around and climb up the sheer rock face right outside the cave where Link slept.
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Her first act of environmental advocacy came in third grade, when she spent three weeks raising funds for manatees after learning that they were endangered.
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The exposition, especially in the first act, feels a bit breakneck at times as it rushes to try and get out of its own way.
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But he had been moved to tears as an audience member at a reading of the first act earlier that summer at Vassar's Powerhouse Theater.
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Midway through the first act of this drama about clashes of faith and family, set in 12th-century Jerusalem, I found myself listing toward boredom.
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But after the first act, the audience divides into four groups, each assigned to a different location — a study, a kitchen, a bedroom, a lawn.
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The first act is broad and impressionistic, and each of the next two sections is more realistic and denser with psychic danger than the last.
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You get the gang raising hell north and south of the border in the first act, and then figuring out how to evade the draft.
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Much of the first act is a negotiation between Nathaniel and Christopher (Ken Marks), who are employer and employee but also friends from way back.
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The first-act closer, "The Lambeth Walk," is less an ear worm than an ear snake, strangling you in its coil of endlessly repeating choruses.
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Toward the end of the first act of the Broadway smash hit "Hamilton," opening the Los Angeles leg of its national tour on Friday, Aug.
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And — gasp — they moved "Journey to the Past" from its place at the start of the film to the finale of the musical's first act.
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The music for the first act of "The Nutcracker" is one of the most marvelous creations in all music theater, but not in this production.
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My first act will be to engage Iran to stabilize the Middle East and make sure we do not start an unwanted never-ending war.
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My first act will be to engage Iran to stabilize the Middle East and make sure we do not start an unwanted never-ending war.
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His attorney told the jury during closing arguments that Runnels did so as his "first act of contrition," but jurors still sentenced him to death.
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Three hundred yards of ecclesiastical lace were used in the procession at the end of the first act — 24 yards for the cardinal's robe alone.
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As the chorus reprises the first-act closer, a wigged and corseted Fontana rises up from beneath the stage to perform a triumphant tap number.
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I have a call with an exec at Chernin to discuss the first act of "Paper Lanterns," which I sent over a couple weeks ago.
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Yet Monday night, behind closed doors, the House Republican Conference made their very first act of the new Congress an explicit rejection of that unmistakable message.
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One Night Stand's first act is its best, since the narrative that follows relies on a couple of genuinely wild coincidences that don't quite hold water.
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For their first act, the new owners set about restoring the 3310 to its former glory, while bringing the beloved old phone into the new era.
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And we have the backstop of Speaker Pelosi passing a continuing resolution [short-term funding extension] as her first act, putting Republicans in a terrible spot.
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"Scotland, PA" still needs to cure a few structural hiccups (the first act seems to end twice) and to address its longueurs and lapses of logic.
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The details may vary, but in the first act of a horror movie (especially a supernatural one), a woman is afraid and no one believes her.
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He caused some controversy among biologists when he said he saw computer viruses as a life form, and thus the human race's first act of creation.
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And for the first act of Weiner, it seems that's what we're going to get — until lightning strikes twice, in front of the cameras no less.
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So while I only had a chance to play the first act of the game, it was polished enough to sell me on the whole experience.
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NEW FCC CHIEF'S FIRST ACT: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday voted to invest up to $170 million in broadband expansion in New York state.
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It may be that people have second acts when they have somehow undergone a break with the person who was the protagonist in the first act.
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He finally worked up the courage to perform his first act to Color Me Badd's "Sex You Up" in 2008, and joined the collective that night.
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Yet after a cliff-hanging first-act finale (it involves a Hessian execution squad), the play seems to lose faith in its audience's capacity for inference.
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The first act, in the play's newly revised version, is a savagely amusing and empathetic study of two men whose lives have been lost in opera.
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The first act, in the play's newly revised version, is a savagely amusing and empathetic study of two men whose lives have been lost in opera.
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And the crowd went wild for the climactic first act number that finds "the world turned upside down" when the underdog Americans finally win their war.
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At the rousing conclusion of the first act of the 1947 opera "The Mother of Us All," the suffragist Susan B. Anthony presides over a wedding.
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Some darkly rich tones provided dramatic dimension for her first-act work before a brighter, brassier sound underlined the character's hopeful delusions in the second act.
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In the first act, we meet a bride, Irene (Holley Fain, an ingénue with an edge), and groom, Martin (Michael Crane), on their disastrous wedding night.
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The chorus's temple chants at the end of the first act had eerie mistiness, as if enacting rather than just describing the birth of the world.
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Her emotionally supple interpretation of the knockout first-act curtain number, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," is as stirring as any I've heard.
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When you have a second act at Google, which is remarkably different from your first act, you actually kind of have to stay focused on that.
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This may well be the clearest link so far between the Trump campaign and the Russians, but it is far from the first act of misconduct.
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As the first act of mass defiance against this purge, the march is currently "the biggest event in Turkish political life," said one marcher, Sukru Kucuksahin.
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It comes at the start of the tenor aria that closes the first act of this grand biblical oratorio from 2012, modeled on the Bach Passions.
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But rehearsal time for the initial installment, the first act of "Jephtha," ran out, and the performance ended after the fourth scene, with three to go.
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His defense attorney told the jury during closing arguments that Runnel did so as his "first act of contrition," but jurors still sentenced him to death.
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The company had just performed the first act of Jimmy López's "Bel Canto," in its world première, and the dissatisfied customer was headed for the exit.
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This free lunchtime concert presenting the first act of "Jephtha" is the first part of a complete cycle of the oratorios: Catch an act every Wednesday.
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This autobiography is not the grand chandelier crashing down as at the end of the first act of "Phantom," but a series of warming, twinkling lights.
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It's a shame: Latouche only contributed to the first act of "Candide," and many of his clever lyrics were replaced with inferior ones by Richard Wilbur.
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The first act of the drama was loud and public: Reporters exposed pervasive sexual harassment at a handful of high-profile restaurant groups around the country.
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Price is the author of the Empowering Patients First Act, one of the most thorough and detailed proposals to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
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His first act as king is searching for Drogon, who burned the throne before gripping his mother's dead body in his talons and flying away — also moodily.
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It is why my first act as Prime Minister last year was to lead the debate in Parliament that ensured the renewal of Britain's independent nuclear deterrent.
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In its first act since raising $175 million from Chinese internet giant Tencent in August, India-based messaging app Hike has become the latest to clone Snapchat.
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In fact, Price took it upon himself to propose his own legislation—a plan known as the Empowering Patients First Act—to repeal and replace the ACA.
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Time and time again, a party takes control of power, and Republicans have complete power, and their first act out of the gate — it's just complete arrogance.
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Cory Booker (D-NJ) and former HUD Secretary Julian Castro, who've found themselves on the outside looking in for the first act of the 2020 media circus.
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Chekhov's Becky was pretty great — Quinn brings her up in the first act and then we actually get to see Becky in federal prison in act two.
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In contrast, the "long first act, no second act, long third act" structure removes the time that's necessary for building character and reduces everything to empty spectacle.
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The theory of Chekhov's gun says, more or less, that a gun which appears in the first act must be fired by the second or third act.
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Ryan was elected to succeed him, and the House's first act of 2016 was to send to Obama's desk an ObamaCare repeal bill that was promptly vetoed.
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From NYSE to Nasdaq, with culinary school in betweenFeloni: Yeah, and so in your first act, basically at the NYSE, you were a trader for eight years?
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Anton Chekhov said that if you introduce a gun in the first act, you'd better use it by the third, and the author does, to stunning effect.
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The Taxpayer First Act of 2019 rightfully directs the IRS to develop a workforce plan to accompany agency restructuring, but the personnel problem persists outside the IRS.
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The House this year passed legislation known as the Put Trafficking Victims First Act, which would direct the attorney general to study issues relating to human trafficking.
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Toward the end of the first act, Dolly asks Ephraim to send her a sign so that she'll know it's O.K. to move on and love again.
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The plot might well be about defeating Ghaul and his super-weapons, but the first act tells us this game is actually about is something very different.
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As the showiness of the first act yielded to the more serious, sustained intensity of the second, the cast was entirely on board with Mr. Honoré's vision.
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After revelations of child sexual abuse in Ireland, the government in 2015 passed the Children First Act, which requires the reporting of child abuse heard in confessionals.
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The first act, on a set defined mostly by props and projections, moves as fast as can be — a generally good idea not always realized at Encores!
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Ms. Gerdin's friends have begun to have babies, and they post pictures of them on Facebook, swathed in blue or pink, in society's first act of sorting.
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His fame is used as a proxy for positive characteristics, and the first act goes to great lengths to demonstrate how nice he is within this framework.
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By the time this musical moment arrives, toward the end of the first act (of three), it simply restates what we've been hearing since the play began.
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And based on what I've seen so far—the entire first act, a full episode of the show, and more—it's a title to make time for.
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He and a handful of other Democrats voted against a deal to avert a government shutdown last week, citing the need to first act on campaign finance.
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According to the synopsis in the written program, the avatars are demons in the first act (Fear, Greed) and temptations in the second (including her own fury).
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But a first-act costume cavalcade that everyone who works on "The Cher Show" refers to simply as "the Mackie number" has everything to do with him.
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That's what the play starts to come down to: that the Rafael Nadal that I've created in the first act is a huge figment of my imagination.
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The cartoonish approach helped solve the problem of the first act, in which neither the petulant, grating Siegfried nor his oleaginous, sinister guardian Mime are particularly sympathetic.
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The first act is full of drama, as well as the endlessly spectacular sight of a one-ton Christmas tree growing from 12 feet to 41 feet.
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Arbuthnot makes a cautious entrance well into the first act only to generate a force-field of feeling that leaves the quipsters around her in the dust.
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Playing a courtesan trying to seduce a monk, Ms. Neblett, in a scene at the end of the first act, shed her robe and briefly sang nude.
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By the end of the first act, the stage is divided by a fence, those with red armbands on one side, those with blue on the other.
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Even the cyanide pill went unused, despite its having been introduced in the season's first act, evidence that even Russians are not always bound by Chekhov's rules.
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That usually works: a sturdy rule of theatre declares that if you show a gun in the first act, it will assuredly be fired in the last.
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Its first act holds up to this well, but I found myself dreading the last section, which is a slog of surrealist corridors interspersed with unnecessary exposition.
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It's clear that Val (Thandie Newton) was underused in the film — the first black woman in the Star Wars galaxy is killed off in the first act.
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Mimi's "Out Tonight" — a fierce ode to living life as freely and dangerously as you want — is a welcome jolt of energy midway through the first act.
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In its first act, as the concept of downsizing is introduced and Paul and Audrey prepare for their new lives, the film has an intriguing edge of desperation.
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He says that his first act as owner this time was to only allow pride flags after the Trump administration put a ban on embassies flying pride flags.
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That we care about him at all, even if just briefly, is due to the soaring love duet that Puccini provides at the end of the first act.
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Nobody lurched up and stalked out during the (90-minute!) first act at the performance I saw, but the auditorium was mildly pockmarked with empty seats after intermission.
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Early in the first act, disoriented from the heat and driven from home by one of her husband's jealous rages, Margaretha observes — or imagines — a traditional Javanese dance.
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For instance, the first act is structured around eight scenes that rotate between Neo being in a public situation and him waking up somewhere in the next scene.
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Like a good performance, his career included both a first act and a later revival, bookending a 21984-year job and a quiet life at the post office.
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The cast of two dozen is supported, during the first act, by 18 members of the Queer Urban Orchestra, playing Tchaikovsky right next to or under your seat.
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Freud might be like the Commendatore in "Don Giovanni": he gets killed in the first act and then shows up for dinner at the end, the Stone Guest.
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But if Mr. Massey, a Republican, wanted to project the image of a capable manager, his first act as a declared candidate did little to help that cause.
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But Politico reported Wednesday that a revised version of the Taxpayer First Act sans the provision would be introduced this week and passed as soon as next week.
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But the farcically chaotic first-act finale is allowed to be its usual bubbly self, and the sublime trio "Soave sia il vento" to be simply, sincerely beautiful.
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"We try really hard for the first act of our show to be about the previous night's and that day's news," Mr. Meyers said in a telephone interview.
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The resignation on Saturday of the Saudi-allied Lebanese prime minister, Saad al-Hariri, announced from Riyadh, was widely seen as the first act on this new front.
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The production features projections by Wendall K. Harrington that help make the house, where the first act party scene takes place — and the Christmas tree — come to life.
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EGNER It's kind of like Chekhov's Gun: You don't have a zombie ice dragon in the first act if you're not going to use it by the third.
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Vaughn could have prevented a lot of death and suffering by closing the beaches and paying Captain Quint $10,000 to catch the shark in the film's first act.
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The Happytime Murders introduces it for the first act, then more or less dumps it entirely, apparently to make room for more extended sex jokes that go nowhere.
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Missing was Don Ottavio's first-act aria "Dalla sua pace," which Mozart wrote with the tenor Francesco Morella in mind for the opera's Vienna premiere the following year.
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In January, Donald Trump's first act as President was to order government agencies to avoid implementing, as much as is legally possible, what has become known as Obamacare.
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" What she said — which is interesting because I've heard mostly black people say this — she was like, "I didn't understand why people were laughing in the first act.
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She made her Broadway debut in 1970 in "Purlie," with Cleavon Little and Melba Moore, and made the most of her brief moment onstage in the first act.
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It's the first act of a movie, the first half or majority of a TV season that leaves the viewer hooked, thirsting for more, and minimally satisfied otherwise.
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In the film version, it takes place in the first act, before all the killing in the rumble, and in the new production it started off here, too.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - The first act of superhero movies has the protagonist slowly waking up to their new powers, perhaps trying them out on a few unfortunate toughs.
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Last Wednesday, Trudeau announced from a Chinese grocery store in Markham that his first act as a reelected prime minister would be tax cuts for the middle class.
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To recreate the gilded Baroque splendor of the Church of Sant'Andrea della Valle, where the first act is set, the Met's artisans used 77 rolls of gold leaf.
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For that first act, the audience made him one thing; when the show took it back, it was the first flag that nobody's position in the story is guaranteed.
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Performed for two audiences as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, this adaptation encompasses the first act, plus a few bits cribbed from the last.
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When the dancers and the music slow to the standstill finish of the first act, a cinematic haze is suddenly visible along with the materialization of the dancers' bodies.
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Nian's younger male cousin and musical collaborator secretly loves Ling, too, yet by the end of the first act, they all have bigger problems: an invasion by the Japanese.
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If your memory is forgiving, that's what you'll take away from "Kinky Boots," along with that first-act anatomy of the irresistible sex appeal of a perilously high heel.
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At one point in the book, you relay the advice "first act, and then think," which runs counter to much of what we're told about the importance of planning.
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But what was especially notable to me about these credits is that they're significantly more generous than the ones that Price proposed in his 2015 Empowering Patients First Act.
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The Golden Circle destroys Kingsman's London headquarters in the first act, prompting secret agents Eggsy (Egerton) and Merlin (Mark Strong) to reach out to their American counterparts for help.
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"Kelly's first act is he calls me into his office and says, 'I need to let you go,&apos" Scaramucci said in reference to Chief of Staff John Kelly.
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The Senate Appropriations Committee has at least approved a budget nearly equal to the president's request, and the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee has unanimously approved the Veterans First Act.
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We're going to be leading off with the first act of the game, covering chapters 1-6 (the opening of the game through the attack on the London Nautica).
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Perhaps the first act of the president should be a tax credit for mandatory counseling sessions for those of us who have had to sit and watch this unfold.
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Like the rest of the show, this one felt like the beginning of something — a twist halfway through the first act that changes your sense of what you're watching.
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The first-act finale, Jayson Dominguez, on the Wheel of Death, may not have actually taken my breath away, but it was a while before I got it back.
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This was shortly after the "Access Hollywood" tape was leaked, and Patterson's first act as field director was to propose that the Party hold a Women for Trump rally.
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While Obama opposed the bill and threatened to veto it, there is hope that President-elect Trump will sign the bill into law, but the Senate must first act.
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The Senate's new omnibus bill, The Veterans First Act, represents Congress's latest attempt to resolve performance deficiencies within the Veterans Administration; but this bill will not significantly improve performance.
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Rob Ashford, who directed him in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and costumed him only in a towel for the first act, knows that Mr. Walker has it.
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Never mind that for the first act of Mr. McCraney's fascinating and uneven play, directed by Tina Landau, it appears as if we have traveled little distance at all.
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In the first act, it seemed relevant to today's re-evaluation of gender norms and the ways in which powerful men exploit their power for sexual and psychosexual gain.
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In this staging's first act, Time (a trumpeting Michael Spyres) and Disillusion (the commanding, chocolaty Sara Mingardo) are treated like archetypes: detached, nearly abstract representatives of an older generation.
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In the first act, after Ike proposes marriage to Tina, she (anachronistically) sings "Better Be Good to Me" — her hit single from the mid-1980s — as an internal monologue.
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There was a light, linear quality to her singing in the first act that opened up to a richer palette as renunciation and terminal illness darkened her character's life.
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The most powerful statement, and the only work exploiting the full, astonishing range of vocal techniques of the Crossing's singers, was Ted Hearne's "Animals," which closed the first act.
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My decision to become an omnivore was fraught, not because it was a religious transgression but because it was my first act of self-assertion as a young adult.
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This provision of the Taxpayer First Act was a key priority for many Democrats, who have sought to prevent the private debt collection program from excessively targeting vulnerable populations.
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The new bill builds on the first act of broad bipartisan pushback against Trump in December, when the Senate passed a resolution condemning the crown prince for Khashoggi's murder.
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The first act luxuriates in cheerful degradation until it arrives at a structure reminiscent of that of movies like "Teorema" and "Down and Out in Beverly Hills": Outsider enters.
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Additionally, from the game's first act through its finale, you bounce between interlocutors in the game's many conversations, choosing which character will speak and which line will be said.
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This isn't the first letter that Warren, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, has sent to the IRS in recent weeks regarding implementation of the Taxpayer First Act.
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An ensemble of thirty-two musicians, led by Dean Buck, conveyed much of the atmosphere and the nuance of the first act but came under strain in the second.
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The scene comes near the end of the first act of this wobbly mammoth of a play, which opened on Tuesday night at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn.
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And just before the first act ends, who should burst in on these intertwined, grown-up bodies but Jane and Michael's understandably outraged teenage daughter, Jenna (Naian González Norvind).
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What happens in the play's first act is, on one level, routine family friction, with the attendant laundry list of grievances about who got the better deal growing up.
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That Wonder Woman devotes its entire first act to these women and their perfect snarls was all the proof I needed that the movie would do Diana's story justice.
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And in his first act after (kinda, sorta) declaring that he will run for Massachusetts senate, he decided to hold a Trump rally just to show his political clout.
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Considering Trump picked Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services, it's safe to assume that he considers Price's Empowering Patients First Act as the front-runner.
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She called for assistance a couple of times in the first act — barking the word "Line!" fully in character — and carried and consulted a script not infrequently during the second.
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But once they do, by drowning him in a bona fide body of water that has been provided for this production's first-act climax, guilt robs them of their lust.
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But as the first act ends with the arrival of another son, the one-legged, electric razor-wielding Bradley (Rich Sommer), the solid ground beneath your feet has given way.
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A major star gets killed off in the first act or Quentin Tarantino decides that this seemingly innocuous moment would be the perfect opportunity for a gun to go off.
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The first act he did in New Jersey was ask for a $4 billion dollar tax increase and he was not very popular in New Jersey, and he still isn't.
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That's because there is bipartisan support in Congress for a new bill dubbed the Taxpayer First Act, which would prohibit the IRS from creating its own online tax preparation software.
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Mirroring the high quality of its trailers, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has a first act that screams "instant classic" and left every fan I spoke to wanting more.
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We try to think we know by Thursday or Friday, but ultimately the first act or the most topical stuff is written on a Monday, Tuesday, sometimes on a Wednesday.
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It comes in the first act of "Ivanov," when Anna Petrovna (the exquisite Nina Sosanya), the ailing wife of the title character, tightly embraces her husband (Geoffrey Streatfeild) from behind.
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But as the first act picks up steam and that immortal score takes hold, the evening soars on a canny, foul-mouthed amalgam that couples German expressionism — Haydn Gwynne's Mrs.
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Tillman wanted to save his single usage of the full-blown word for a different first-act scene, in which Starr listens to Shakur as Khalil explains the rapper's message.
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But her passion overwhelms that fear; for once, the character's love of dancing — an idea stated repeatedly in the first act — is perfectly aligned with her take-no-prisoners personality.
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But these Marches don't feel much like a unit, and the first act, performed with too-manic energy, is hobbled by our not knowing most of them in any depth.
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Overhead, an angled projection screen shows a flat, Oklahoman landscape for most of the first act, but it is put to smart dramatic use in the second and third acts.
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The first act is laden with inert monologues, but the second has the feeling of a pageant: present-day actors recounting California history, sometimes as a show within a show.
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During The Hunger's first act, he turns from star-crossed lover locked in a torrid affair he believes will continue into infinity into a weak, confused shell of a man.
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When Petipa fell ill during work on the first act, he was replaced by his assistant, Lev Ivanov, who, under pressure, farmed out at least one dance to a colleague.
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But reversing a promise to your voters in your first act in office is a surefire way to make you look like a shady politician if ever there was one.
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When Democrat John Lewis introduced the Taxpayer First Act, which focuses on cybersecurity and protecting taxpayers from identity theft, his cosponsors included Republican Kevin Brady and Democrat Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
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The first act of the episode, where the funeral is told from her point of view, is a study in how little white people notice the microaggressions they mindlessly perpetrate.
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The mourning for the general, it could be said, is Iran's first act of retaliation: what amounts to an extraordinary four-day state funeral in not one but two countries.
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HARTFORD — Even in ordinary productions of George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," the arrival of Boss Mangan in the middle of the first act changes the temperature of the play completely.
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In "Cloud 9," a two-act satire set in both British colonial Africa and 1979 London, she played three characters — two in the first act and one in the second.
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And Mr. Brown's elegant suits — a dark three-piece for the first act, and white tie and tails for the second — are far too closely tailored for trick-harboring sleeves.
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Whannell introduces a delicious dynamic in the first act, in which Cecilia seems to sense, to almost smell the presence of Adrian, although she — and we — don't see a thing.
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The show's staff worked overnight to write a new first act, while the previously prepared segment, on the American Health Care Act of 2017, was taped anyway and posted online.
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The writing for diverse ensembles is brilliant throughout, but the first act feels considerably more cohesive than the second, which sometimes lapses into the style of a sweeping PBS documentary.
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But through most of the long first act of "Girls" (the two acts combined last nearly three hours), he thins the textures to expose intricate details and piercing modernist chords.
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The actress held court during intermission in the VIP Ambassador's Lounge of the newly reopened Hudson Theatre, sipping their Moët & Chandon flutes while remarking on Gyllenhaal's performance in the first act.
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It lands around the midpoint of the first act, is structured around an incredibly ambitious flashback gambit, and almost certainly won Renee Elise Goldsberry (the woman who sings it) a Tony.
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In his first act as president, he pulled America out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-country free-trade area that Japan had hoped would bind America to the region.
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Sloppily scripted by Andrew Cosby, the dialogue is a maelstrom of interchangeable sameness — a conversation from the first act could very well be swapped for one of the movie's final lines.
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Its first act slowly amps up the sense of dread around a happy relationship that's obviously doomed, maintaining a sense of mystery around Sand's cult and the Hellraiser-esque biker gang.
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Univision's first act on acquiring the company was to delete six true and accurate news stories from our archive, because those stories had been the targets of frivolous or malicious lawsuits.
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Their presence in the film's first act—and their ultimate fate as gator bait—speaks to the classist and often racist climate disaster anxieties (and fantasies) that Crawl is tapping into.
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"Beiersdorf have joined Henkel, Colgate and Coke in 'the reset club' in a dramatic first act by new CEO Stefan de Loecker and CFO Desi Temperley," said Jefferies analyst Martin Deboo.
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The commission is made up of 40 parliamentarians from the upper and lower chambers and, as a first act, they picked veteran centrist politician Pier Ferdinando Casini to chair their discussions.
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But the convoluted first act, narrated by Benny, who is black, primarily tells the story of Bertha, a patient in a whites-only nursing home, and Julynne, who runs the place.
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When Friedman arrived in Israel this week, his first act was to visit Jerusalem's Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews are permitted to pray, a symbolic departure from usual protocol.
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In the film's first act, he enlists the help of Sook-hee (Kim Tae-Ri), a lowborn pickpocket, to take a job as Hideko's handmaiden, and convince her to wed Fujiwara.
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Although the sight of Ms. Streisand singing "Papa, Can You Hear Me" from "Yentl" while appearing to catch the holy spirit, before the end of the first act, was quite something.
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The odor wafts into the back of the orchestra whenever the doors are ajar, particularly just before the first act and during intermission; its intensity varies based on the air flow.
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Like Anton Chekhov said, if you introduce a gigantic ice wall that magically repels zombies and demonic frost elves in the first act, it has to come down in the third.
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It's just that the climax of the first act, and the opening minutes of the second, give the show a jolt of emotional currency that contrasts strikingly with its nostalgic spirit.
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In the first act, when the character must prove an able seductress while also showing traces of jealousy, Ms. Radvanovsky came up with ingenious ways to make these facets flow together.
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Ms. Inoa, a playwright to watch (and a writer for the AMC horror series "The Walking Dead"), melds various styles here, moving from the rap opener to a naturalistic first act.
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He said that the first act was essentially completed, with written-out scoring for the vocal lines, but that Ms. Oliveros left no music for the even more unconventional second act.
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The first act traces Ms. Steinem's life from her childhood with a mother incapacitated by anxiety and depression, and the second takes the form of a talking circle for the audience.
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Robert Glenister is especially good as the most bigoted of these con men, not to mention the one who looks forward late in the first act to the possibility of violence.
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The first act is devoted largely to the fantasies that Bella, fleeing the law after felling a would-be rapist, conjures up on a long (really long) train ride from Tupelo.
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For the head of the C.H.P., Kemal Kilicdaroglu, that was the signal to call for the 250-mile, 23-day march, the first act of mass defiance against the ongoing purge.
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In the first act, the lyrics find Judith Ford driving down a deserted road on the way to see her husband, Jase Connolly, who walked out on her two weeks earlier.
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In the first act, Abbi is pulled, chest first, into a sewer grating; a pop-up sale turns into a riot; and Ilana gets her bicycle chain locked around her waist.
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It flirts, somewhat dangerously, with the notion that maybe those behind the Salem witch trials were onto something, since it introduces a literal witch before the end of the first act.
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If this were a 120-minute romantic comedy (and it kind of is), then Alan's big break in this episode would have been the end of the first act in the movie.
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But the work Wright and Elgort do in the first act establishes the film's musical MO, which mashes up music video–style kineticism with the emotional and narrative drive of movie musicals.
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We deduce that he is really rich in that he has the money to buy the big, sleek airplane that is the subject of many arcane phone conversations in the first act.
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A temporary stay is exactly that—but with over half of US states lining up to challenge the Clean Power Plan in court, the first act has gone very badly indeed. [Bloomberg]
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So it's hard to see Final Fantasy VII Remake in its current form — an absolutely gorgeous rethinking of the original game's first act, in the city of Midgar — and not be worried.
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Today's March for Science in locations around the world is drawing an obvious comparison to the Women's March on Washington in January, the first act of mass protest against the Trump administration.
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As his first act of the day, Brown swore in veteran Democratic Congressman and lawyer Xavier Becerra as the state's attorney general, replacing Kamala Harris, who was elected to the U.S. Senate.
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There are also those in the Democratic Party who are claiming that the first act of a House controlled by their party should be to bring forth articles of impeachment against Trump.
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Outlander The first rule of drama: If a group of irrepressible scamps find a contraband pistol in the first act, one of them has to lose a hand by the third act.
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Mr. Pallas of Teachers College said he thought Mr. Carranza's decision to save Wadleigh as a first act seemed more about building a political constituency than about crafting a detailed turnaround plan.
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Throughout the first act, Mr. Norris and Mr. Greif pull off the not inconsiderable feat of keeping us fully, even breathlessly engaged, without presenting a single character who entirely captures our sympathies.
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I heard that program — dominated by the first act of Wagner's "Die Walküre" — on both Wednesday and Saturday, and the latter performance was significantly tenser and sharper than the former's vague dreariness.
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With a powdery soft tone and comforting low register, Ms. Isaev was most convincing in the first act, in which we get to know Tosca as a sweet and playfully pious diva.
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As the applause for the first act was still ringing out, Mr. Nézet-Séguin emerged from the pit and walked toward his dressing room, stopping to chat with musicians along the way.
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"Flute" was well known to Sendak: Just three years before, he had produced one of his delightful "fantasy sketches" — fluid drawings swiftly executed as he listened to music — illustrating Mozart's first act.
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According to her taste (and, ahem, her abilities), she may even insert a cry of triumph in the form of a high D natural as the curtain falls on the first act.
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So forget about crown jewels and parades; Mr. Doyle does not even let us see the wrestling match that is a major plot point, and often a highlight, of the first act.
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In the first act, when she comes upstairs to light her candle, the already ill Mimì faints dead away; rather than being concerned, Rodolfo is almost amused, tapping her with his foot.
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In its first act with such powers, the commission announced Monday that around 35 sites had been cleared for revival, while eight unidentified repeat offenders would continue to be inaccessible in Australia.
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Stephen K. Bannon, then still an influential adviser to the president, turned to John Bolton to draw up a new Iran strategy that would, as its first act, abrogate the Iran deal.
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Both Arden and Rubinstein quarrel with, and are betrayed by, men they love, who feel emasculated by their dominating women and wind up changing alliances even before the first-act curtain falls.
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In Romeo and Juliet, Act 1 shows us that there are two powerful families feuding in Verona, and by the end of the first act, two of their children have fallen in love.
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Those who seek to break our laws as their first act of "being American" are simply dragging America into the same sad state of corruption and lawlessness they fled in the first place.
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The House Ways and Means Committee proposed a package of tax provisions on Monday, known as the Retirement, Savings and Other Tax Relief Act of 2018 and the Taxpayer First Act of 2018.
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But for at least the first act of this tale of lost souls in the shoe business, you might as well just give it up to the audience-hugging charisma of her songs.
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Iraq's Parliament met for the first time since the protests restarted — over corruption, unemployment and official accountability — and its first act was to dissolve provincial councils that have been widely criticized as corrupt.
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That same month, Intuit's lobbying efforts resulted in a bill now moving through Congress called the Taxpayer First Act that would make it impossible for the IRS to ever offer free tax filing.
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The first act is flat, but it picks up considerably once Carol Danvers crash-lands her wisecracking self on Earth and gets to spend some time bouncing off a cheerfully bemused Nick Fury.
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Second, you may wonder what is sci-fi about it: the first act features no world-changing tech, only subtle hints in dialogue, music, and scenery that there's more than meets the eye.
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The bill, known as the Taxpayer First Act, includes provisions designed to improve the IRS in several areas, including taxpayer services, taxpayers rights during the enforcement process, identity theft protection and information technology.
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The bill, known as the Taxpayer First Act, includes provisions designed to improve the IRS in several areas, including taxpayer services, taxpayer rights during the enforcement process, identity theft protection and information technology.
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The play's first act is a sort of memoir as it might be classified by the Dewey Decimal System, as Mr. Jones pulls file cards from drawers to summon chapters of his past.
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After a run-through of "Never Ever Getting Rid of Me," a first act song given to Ogie, the oddball suitor of one of Jenna's fellow waitresses, Ms. Paulus called over Ms. Bareilles.
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His photo portraits are an extensive first act in Portraying a Nation: Germany 21926-21927 at the Tate Liverpool, which couples two of Germany's most prolific 21946th-century portraitists, Sander and Otto Dix.
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The legislation Mr. Price has proposed, the Empowering Patients First Act, would repeal the Affordable Care Act and offer age-adjusted tax credits for the purchase of individual and family health insurance policies.
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At this point, Chick-fil-A is but a distant memory in the the Chicken Sandwich War of 2019, a supporting character that served its purpose in the first act of the drama.
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In the first act of this best-of-five series, the Cubs' pair, known as "Bryzzo," powered their team to a 3-0 victory, with help from Kyle Hendricks's brilliant seven-inning start.
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In "Midsummer," the first act tells Shakespeare's story, in which Titania and Oberon fight over a Page, while the star-crossed lovers — Helena, Hermia, Lysander and Demetrius — find themselves gravely and humorously mismatched.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, "The Batman" writer/director Matt Reeves, known for "War for the Planet of the Apes," turned in the first act of his screenplay over the Memorial Day weekend.
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The first act is conventional enough: a six-person drama by Emily Mann about the peripatetic life of Ms. Steinem (the perfectly cast Christine Lahti) and the people and issues that shaped her.
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The first act involves watching each couple — a black woman and a white British man; a black man and a white woman; and a gay couple — role play fantasies of slave and master.
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After the lively first act, you can continue your education in the culinary tastes of the 1950s at a lobby wall where recipes from the period have been blown up for your perusal.
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It seems appropriate to find Desiree tinkling a triangle during "A Weekend in the Country," that great closing number to the first act that has a social and sexual geometry all its own.
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By the conclusion of the first act of "Just to Get Married," an old-fashioned happy ending — the kind that's set to a wedding march — would appear to be in store for Georgie.
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Mahler judiciously trimmed first-act music he deemed inconsequential and inserted Beethoven's dramatic "Leonore" Overture No. 3 into the second act, while Roller's stylized, partially abstracted scenery lent the story a timeless universality.
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"If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one, it should be fired," he once wrote in a 1899 letter to a literary colleague.
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But every one of us, as our first act as a member of Congress, stood on this historic House floor before our beautiful American flag, and raised our hands in this sacred oath.
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I anticipated fun when a certain White House staff secretary appears early on, complete with a presidential nickname, "K-Man" — but, unlike a Chekhovian first-act pistol, Brett Kavanaugh never speaks or returns.
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Throw in the earnest sweetness of Peter and MJ's growing friendship, and Far From Home leaves us on as strong of a high as the low that its first act takes us to.
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Photo: Towers et al (Scientific Reports 2018)A pair of orcas earned their "killer whale" moniker one late fall day in 2016 by committing the first act of orca infanticide ever captured on film.
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ProPublica reported today that the bill, called the Taxpayer First Act, would enshrine the current tax system in law, preventing the IRS from offering a competing service to private online filing offerings like TurboTax.
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Sinema also voted for the "Verify First Act" last year, which would require government verification of an individual's immigration status before providing them with tax credits designed to make insurance more affordable under Obamacare.
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House Democrats introduced and voted unanimously for the Put Trafficking Victims First Act of 2019 and voted overwhelmingly for the Republican-introduced Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017.
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The culmination of this effort has led some academics to believe this may well be the first act of a state constitution based on freedom of religion, equality and justice, precipitating the American constitution.
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And the deeper themes of the novel — parental rejection, death, guilt, the evil within — are mostly lost in a tedious exposition of family backstory that takes up much of the 50-minute first act.
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McKellen spent much of the first act talking about falling in love with theater, working with titans like Laurence Olivier and, above all, coming out as a gay man, which he did at 47.
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Near the start of the first act, a young scavenger removes a pair of goggles, and we meet the galaxy's new hero: a brave woman, draped in no-fuss garments and carrying a staff.
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House Democrats introduced and voted unanimously for the Put Trafficking Victims First Act of 22014 and voted overwhelmingly for the Republican-introduced Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 22016.
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That is until the end of the first act, when the play takes a sharp turn with a grisly fight scene that, while artfully choreographed, raises a dramatic hurdle that the script can't clear.
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The first act of "Fiddler on the Roof," one of the most popular American musicals, which is performed frequently across the country, had just ended at the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore on Wednesday night.
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More consequentially, a dozen or so songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez have been added to seven they wrote for the movie, making the first act a nearly sung-through music drama.
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That uncertainty permeates the first act of "Miss Americana," in which Swift is glimpsed noodling around on new songs, teasing her mom and admitting that she had never tried a burrito until age 26.
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This gloomier inclination is more compelling; there's a wrenching number toward the end of the first act when Mr. Blankenbuehler uses dance, in "Right This Way," to suggest the psychological burdens these men carry.
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This one proved them right — it was adamantly anti-theatrical, so flagrantly did it break Chekhov's rule that a gun on the stage in the first act needs to go off before the curtain.
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"For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack @realdonaldtrump as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unproductive," Ms. McDaniel wrote about her uncle on Twitter.
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Designed to look her most remarkable in luxe, red carpet drag, it's only when she's pared down, as she is here in the first act, that we get a real approximation of the truth.
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Fans of the franchise may notice that super speed isn't involved in these fights, but that's not an oversight on my end: Quicksilver is completely forgotten about after the first act of the movie.
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The old guard used the Academy of Music on 14th Street, just east of Union Square, as their gathering ground, showing up near the end of the first act to gossip in their box seats.
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During the first act of tonight's Republican debate in Houston, Rubio seemed to have dispelled with this fiction that maintaining professionalism in the company of Trump would eventually win the favor of the GOP electorate.
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"I learned that - if you study theater - a pistol that is brought out in the First Act will apparently be fired in the Third Act (and) we are getting close to the third," he said.
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I cried from the moment the curtain went up all the way through the first act and resumed my crying after intermission, now composed enough that my outpouring was mostly confined to pathetic little chirps.
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"I learned that - if you study theatre - a pistol that is brought out in the First Act will apparently be fired in the Third Act (and) we are getting close to the third," he said.
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His first act was to fly to Berlin for talks with Mr Puigdemont, who is fighting extradition from Germany on charges relating to the October events that range from rebellion to misuse of public funds.
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In the first act of this lavish, leisurely and immersive novel, Midhat's craving for intellectual freedom and "cosmopolitan life" finds a focus in his love for Jeannette, the daughter of his academic host in France.
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There is a clear emotional and visual divide between the first act of the film set in America, and the rest that takes place only in the pastoral, sun-soaked world of the midsummer festival.
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That's the broad canvas upon which more detailed strokes are applied: Fenix's leader, Lieutenant Minh Young Kim, is murdered by General RAAM before the first act is even over, hammering home the bleakness before you.
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" Another read, "Isn't the Democratic Party the official SODOMIZER PROTECTION ASSOCIATION of AMERICA–oh, I forgot, it was just an accident that Clintoon's [sic] first act in office was to promote 'gays in the military.
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Most recently, Congress passed the Family First Act, which redirects child welfare funding typically only available to states after a child has been placed in foster care to prevention services designed to keep families together.
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In this regard, it is perhaps not surprising that federal unions oppose the Veterans First Act, in part out of fear new disciplinary authorities could be used for political reprisal instead of remedying poor performance.
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In the book's first act, Choi renders the teen drama well—she's a great writer—but it still feels somehow lacking, vague and hard to care about, like an amateur production of a great play.
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Yet Wednesday must have been one of those once-a-century days, because the opening of the City Center production of "Brigadoon," directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, was, for the first act anyway, glorious.
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The Minotaur will emerge as a force of evil, for example handing Phaedra the knife when she tries to slit her wrists in the first act (she will ultimately be found hanging from a rope).
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For starters, the two stories that Mr. Lithgow recites — "Haircut" in the first act and P. G. Wodehouse's "Uncle Fred Flits By" in the second — are superb, outlandish and, in very different ways, hair-raising.
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"Sword fighting and jumping on and off furniture — ouch!" she said, adding that when she performed the role at the Met in 2010, she logged two miles on her pedometer during the first act alone.
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Certainly, the opening minutes of the first act, set in an expensive Manhattan hotel room, directly evoke "Plaza Suite," Mr. Simon's Broadway hit from 1968 in which assorted couples farcically embody variations on marital disaffection.
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It compresses a lot into the ball scene to get a lot accomplished, taking the approach of a party for Juliette to push together the plot of the first act and a half of Shakespeare.
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I am referring, as musical theater aficionados may have guessed, to the storied first-act finale of "Dreamgirls," the 1981 Broadway musical that made its absurdly belated British debut on Wednesday at the Savoy Theater.
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MARY M. LILLY Her very first act as a legislator, she told a woman's suffrage magazine in 1919, was to submit a resolution asking the state's United States senators to lobby for the 19th Amendment.
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At the river, FP holds a Serpent meeting to officially retire and pass the torch to Jughead, who in his first act as King of the Serpents, gives Cheryl "Cherry" Bombshell a red leather Serpent jacket.
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Jane Greenwood's costumes are largely of the same hue, and I kept thinking that surely Thérèse's disposition would improve if she were ever allowed to change that mouse-brown dress she wears for the first act.
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For the tax credit parameters, we applied the tax credits prescribed in the Empowering Patients First Act legislation, which was sponsored by Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price when he was a House member.
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She told reporters after meeting Putin that if victorious, her first act would be to think about lifting the sanctions that the European Union imposed on Russia after it annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula three years ago.
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Justo was among 150,000 Thai and foreign inmates who were pardoned or had their sentences commuted by Thailand's new King Maha Vajiralongkorn as the first act of mercy since he ascended the throne earlier this month.
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As his first act, he dismissed the parliament still dominated by loyalists of his defeated predecessor, setting up an election in two months in which his new party has a chance to win its first seats.
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"It's funny, because I did this movie Southpaw right before, and at the first act of that movie, my wife dies, and then I was reading the script, and I went, 'I don't know …' " Gyllenhaal said.
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It largely reproduces HHS Secretary Tom Price's Empowering Patients First Act: The legislation would take down the foundation of Obamacare, including the unpopular individual mandate, subsidies based on people's income, and all of the law's taxes.
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My Favorite Page Nina Stemme's favorite page from the score of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" is a surprising one: not Isolde's closing "Liebestod" or the great love scene, but a passing moment in the first act.
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Martínez and his elite unit of the Colombian National Guard will no doubt get past the first act of the "Dirty Harry" movie, too, but for now they're taking a conventional approach to an unconventional war.
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In the interim, she worked to keep a realm together as a member of the British Parliament; her first act in her return to the theater will be to play a monarch who breaks one up.
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Killing the film's central character and biggest star, and killing her brutally, at the end of the first act, puts Psycho's audience on edge—for the rest of the film, it feels like anything could happen.
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SETH COLTER WALLS Last weekend at Opera Theater of St. Louis — read my report on "An American Soldier" and "Regina" — a grave medical emergency curtailed a performance of Gluck's "Orfeo and Euridice" after the first act.
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He consulted with the lighting designer, Jeff Croiter, on how best to handle a first-act transition in the number "You Deserve It," set at a bar and involving the actor Drew McVety and the ensemble.
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Singing Violetta at the Met two years ago, Ms. Yoncheva brought a kind of luxuriant sensuality to the first act, a party that's gone on much too long, but now she seemed simply vague and disconnected.
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For once you understand completely how these characters are extensions, on many levels, of the people we met in the first act and how crucial vision, in all sense of the word, is to their lives.
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That disquiet assumes dramatic form before the first act ends, when a romantic triangle — or quadrangle, depending on how you look at it (again, this is a Stoppard play) — forces anti-Semitic sentiment into the open.
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When a friend is killed by the police, though, they commit to becoming real revolutionaries, and as their first act, they bust a noted radical, Dhari (Nathaniel Martello-White, in a terrific performance), out of prison.
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Audience members receive a paddle when they arrive, and toward the middle of the first act the cast makes it rain, firing fake dollars from cash cannons before the auction's first lot comes up for sale.
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Author Marianne Williamson's plan to call the prime minister of New Zealand as her first act as president and tell her "Girlfriend, you are so on" may have been the most detailed proposal on Thursday night.
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Eyre does a fine job distributing the chorus in the first act across his imagined train-station square in Amiens (Rob Howell's set, an immense amphitheater that melds into a crumbling hôtel particulier, is impressive and versatile).
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However, Little said there were questions about whether the processes under the second act were as accessible as they needed to be, and noted that discrimination on the basis of religion isn't covered by the first act.
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The show recovers its first-act zip and zeal with its finale, "Raise You Up/Just Be," one of the best curtain numbers since "You Can't Stop the Beat" sent "Hairspray" audiences dancing out of the theater.
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Even Rachel comes to learn the power of relaxation: Before the end of the first act, she celebrates enlightenment by hitting a bottle of rum and saying "It's five o'clock somewhere!" in the direction of the crowd.
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Price will arrive with at HHS with a clear blueprint for what comes next: he is the author of the Empowering Patients First Act, one of the most thorough and detailed proposals to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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The latter, who seemed destined to be the first Asian-American rap superstar back in the early 2000s, speaks quite frankly in the documentary, explaining the challenges and pitfalls of being the first act of his kind.
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I too think the movie's first act is poorly executed, and in my review, I wrote about how it eventually becomes quite a spectacle, despite an origin story for Carol that is determined to mosey in sideways.
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As Chair of the Blue Ribbon Panel overseeing the Veteran's Choice Act Independent Assessment of the VA Health Administration (VHA), I believe actually putting veterans first will require much more than proposed in the Veterans First Act.
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Lawmakers introduced a new version of the Taxpayer First Act that did not include the Free File provision in early June, which the House and Senate both quickly passed, and which has now been signed into law.
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Mr. McVicar said that he still gets hate mail whenever the Royal Opera House in London revives his production of Verdi's "Rigoletto," which featured an orgy and women spilling out of their dresses in the first act.
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After all, the band is instrumental to the evolution of hardcore, being the first act most people point to in explaining how punk went from the bubblegum pop of the Ramones to the destructive nihilism of hardcore.
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George — just wanting to represent a mother and acknowledge that grown women are judgmental of each other, too, and that we as the audience look at this character in the first act like: Oh, she's a clown.
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The Battle of the Blackwater even featured the now-standard last-minute surprise attack that turned the tide, this time led by Tywin Lannister and Loras Tyrell as the first act in the two great families' alliance.
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On Tuesday, the House approved legislation misleadingly titled the Taxpayer First Act that includes a provision prohibiting the Internal Revenue Service from developing a free online system that most American households could use to file their taxes.
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Among the highlights: a new first act song for Elsa, "Dangerous to Dream," and a new, and vocally flashy, second act number in which she grapples with the implications of having a power that she cannot control.
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We therefore get the basic, symmetrical story — the miracle Jesus performs on Lazarus in the first act, his own resurrection in the second — threaded through with a sense that these characters and their struggles have modern analogues.
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In Mozart's "Così Fan Tutte" on Friday, the sublimely serene first-act trio, "Soave sia il vento" ("May the wind be gentle"), couldn't calm a pummeling downpour or gusts strong enough to waft rain onto the audience.
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But thanks to heavy restructuring of the first act, there's now no question that this is Mary Jane's story; we learn of her addiction much sooner and are never allowed to lose sight of her for long.
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That first act, which places a mid-20th-century American family on the edge of extinction in the Ice Age, still feels as fresh as morning and as old as Moses (who happens to appear in it).
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The first act was the Western, and the second was the leisure class, but the third won't be unveiled until September, when Mr. Jean-Raymond will also move in part to a see now/buy now schedule.
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So a movie in which Poirot tells Depp's Ratchett that he won't protect him because "I do not like your face" seems appealing — doubly so when the character turns up dead at the end of the first act.
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Peg McDuff, the detective who arrives at the end of the first act, is only tangentially related to Shakespeare's Macduff — and unlike the movie's detective, played by Christopher Walken, is a woman: that reliable old pro Megan Lawrence.
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All appears saved in the first act of the finale, when Charlie is charged by terrorist mastermind Khalil (Charif Ghattas) with delivering a bomb to an Israeli woman professor's (Ricki Hayut) speech at the University Of Greater London.
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Listeners can browse through the site as a filing cabinet or as a timeline, starting with his 1963 song Aurora from his first act, The Squires, and going all the way up to his latest release, The Visitor.
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The group dance that comprises this first act, a joyous synthesis of ballroom vogue, footwork, and various flavors of hip-hop dance performed by a sexually, racially, and culturally diverse group of young dancers, soon blends into nightmare.
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In his first act as the host of Saturday Night Live, Chance dedicated a new song to the "outcasts and weirdos" in every family this holiday season — like Leslie Jones' Aunt Shevonne, whose purse gun makes everyone uncomfortable.
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She was the most important off-stage character of OWL's first act, with questions about her status causing several teams to flail for adequate responses as to why nobody had signed her before the start of the season.
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" Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel, Romney's niece, tweeted that "For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack @realdonaldtrump as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unproductive.
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"For an incoming Republican freshman senator to attack (Donald Trump) as their first act feeds into what the Democrats and media want and is disappointing and unproductive," McDaniel wrote on Twitter Wednesday, choosing not to name her uncle.
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"My first act after the vote in the lower house will be to propose a new pact among all the political forces, without winners of losers," Rousseff told Estado de S.Paulo newspaper in a briefing for local media.
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Even with 45 minutes cut from the score, this is a long opera — the conductor Maurizio Benini led a crisp, clear rendition that nevertheless struggled to find variety in the 105-minute first act — and a long part.
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For our first-act finale — in three spotlights — Mary, Danny and Stephen sing "Tunnel of Love" as chorus members dance around them in that Twyla Tharp/Bill T. Jones/Steven Hoggett manner that seems to get people going.
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Luckily, I didn't have to grapple too hard, because the Disability Drag Show created its own standard ambiance of joy and acceptance, including a first act featuring performers besides Drag Syndrome — and because it brought the house down.
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Mr. Doyen wrote that the shooting "appears to have been the first act of mass violence at an event at which a D.H.S.-certified service or technology was employed" — one of the conditions for triggering the liability shield.
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"We knew the entire first act," recalled Ms. Stiller, who acted in productions at Calhoun High School in Manhattan and at Emerson College, before leaving college to study at Circle in the Square Theater School in Midtown Manhattan.
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Then again, this big but tentative show — which features a book by David Greig and songs by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman — doesn't burst with flavor of any kind, at least not during its exposition-crammed first act.
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"Tonia is actually very committed to our cause; it was her first act as an MP to support medical cannabis, as it is a cause close to her heart," Jon Liebling, political director at the UPA, tells me.
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In the first act of "Donnerstag," after the trials of early youth, Michael auditions to enter the "advanced school of music," in front of jurors who are versions of Eve and Lucifer, the cycle's other primary mythic figures.
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In the first act, I lost count of how many scenes involve characters, particularly Peter, describing what kind of emotion they're feeling and the actions that they're going to do in the next scene because of said emotion.
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Members of the chorus, who hold salaried positions with the opera company, will stage a strike during the first act of the March 18 performance of Philip Glass's "Akhnaten," Equity, the union that represents them, said in a statement.
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It's reminiscent of the first act of Alien; the squad of players are like those working stiffs wandering around the Nostromo, joking around, seemingly unaware of what is about to happen to them but somehow still surrounded by dread.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France and Germany on Wednesday announced a 65 million euro ($74 million) contract financed equally by both countries over two years as the first act of the joint program to design a next-generation combat jet system.
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The teaser also has some pretty great music, like something that would play as the first act of a sci-fi film is ramping up and its heroes are about to see something they were never meant to see.
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Nintendo 23: One of the most divisive cartridges in history, it was the first act from Nintendo going backwards with their design, taking away the functionality of a flat top with a logo in preference for an unlabeled lump.
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Yes, the country was once a copycat haven, but that has changed as the learnings of copying have led to originality: The first act of copying didn't turn into an anti-innovation mentality that its creator could never shake.
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The movie is so wrapped up in Red's confused character arc that by the time the first act is over, it's already time for the movie to end, and none of the other characters get nearly as well-developed.
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"After hearing from members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and freshmen Members, I am bringing the Taxpayer First Act to the Floor again next week under suspension without provisions related to online tax preparation," Hoyer said in a statement.
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That purpose is revealed when the authors in their palpable ignorance allege that the first act of terrorism in modern times in North Africa and Asia was the bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946 by militant Zionists.
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It looks like the controversial provision in the Taxpayer First Act that would have prevented the Internal Revenue Service from directly competing with filing services offered through the Free File Program will no longer be part of the bill.
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The first act of the film, when it's playful—when they're finding their sound, dyeing their hair, drawing that logo, being awkward around girls, having parties in their garden—that was very much like when I was in bands.
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Even though he agreed with Mr. Barr that following the guidelines allowed for too harsh of a punishment recommendation, he told associates he could not afford to alienate the Stone trial team as his first act on the job.
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The newly Democratic-led State Legislature's first act in January was to pass sweeping changes intended to make it easier for New Yorkers to vote, and Mr. Cuomo had made voting reform one of his legislative priorities this year.
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MANDALAY, Myanmar — Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, in her first act as Myanmar's state counselor, said Thursday that she would seek to free political prisoners, including students, describing the issue as the top priority of her party's new government.
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Visitors will be able to choose from some 30 restaurants, shops and music venues, the largest of which, the Anthem, can hold up to 6,000 and has booked as its first act the Foo Fighters, the popular rock band.
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So in his first act after his 20163 election victory, Mr. Hill filed a bill making it illegal to remove "remembrances" on public property erected on or after 1822 except for repairs — or relocation to an equally prominent place.
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Things got off to an inauspicious start in February, when a story at E&E revealed that Pruitt was requesting a full-time, around-the-clock security detail — not the first act of a man confident in his agenda.
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"If you have a stand-out product and the company has been designed to scale beyond its first act, it's a great time to go public," said Ravi Mhatre, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and an early investor in Nutanix.
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That first act is one of the most beautiful of American stories, carrying him from his small town in the middle of Ohio to his ascension to international fame as the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962.
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A particular low point, from the first act, involves an almost-literal treading water song, where a bunch of sailors off to the mysterious Skull Island sing "Pressure Up." It's a monotonous song about the monotony on the high seas.
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Tron: Legacy was notably designed to kickstart a new franchise; in its first act, Sam plays a prank on the current leaders of his father's corporation, including one played by Cillian Murphy, as the son of the first film's villain.
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Chloe loves Henry, but years of rules that only apply to her and not to other people have made her resentful and rebellious, and well before the first act ends, she's in full meltdown mode against her father and his strictures.
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Any tension or suspense built out of the first act is almost totally removed and we're left with an exposition-heavy story that's spinning its wheels waiting for the real plot to kick in, or at least another action set piece.
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"If Huma can forgive Anthony, why can't a voter forgive Anthony?" one volunteer asks the camera, underlining a common theme of the documentary's first act: Abedin helped legitimize Weiner's mayoral campaign and the redemption narrative he was trying to create.
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Earlier, President Vladimir Putin stuck with long-serving Prime Minister Medvedev in his first act after being sworn in for a new term, signalling he would keep faith with a policy direction that has brought Russia into conflict with the West.
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When Thanos finally did collect all six Infinity Gems and assemble them into a fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in the comics, his first act was a statement for his beloved Death: He wiped out half the population of the universe. NBD.
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As a first act of business next year, however, House Democrats are promising to revamp how the institution itself operates, promoting Day One proposals to limit the influence of money in politics and adopt stricter ethics rules for members of Congress.
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In what The Los Angeles Times recently termed "the first act of mass militancy by Mexican Americans in modern California history," students demanded smaller classes, an end to corporal punishment, and the introduction of classes on Mexican-American history and culture.
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" Hawley's very first act as a Senator will be to swear to uphold the Constitution, whose Bill of Rights opens with the explicit command that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
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For starters, Beyoncé is the first act to debut at No. 1 with her first six studio albums: Her first solo albums, from "Dangerously in Love" to "Lemonade," all debuted at the top spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
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But given the symbolic potency of the idea of a wall, it's not clear Democrats — who do not want their first act in the majority in the House to be a concession to Trump, would contemplate any such plan today.
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It became clear to lawmakers, who wanted to advance the other provisions in the Taxpayer First Act, that the Free File provision needed to be dropped in order for the bill to be enacted, prompting the bill's revision and reintroduction.
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For much of the first act, or until the more hamfisted theatrics of Roger Haines's production take over, you look on amazed that a commercial climate devoted largely to jukebox musicals and proven box-office entities has taken this risk.
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France and Germany will on Wednesday announce a 65 million euros contract financed equally by both countries over two years as the first act of the joint programme to design a next-generation combat jet, a French army source said.
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The last 30 minutes of Captain Marvel: I wasn't super high on Captain Marvel, mainly because the first act hinges too much on a middling amnesia plot, and at times, everyone but Captain Marvel gets the fun superhero stuff to do.
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But, 2-1 up with less than 20 minutes to play, Aly Cissokho was sent off for a professional foul (please make up your own jokes about this being the first act of professionalism performed by a Villa player all season).
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I can't shake the memory of the cinematic image that concludes the first act, in which a solemn young man creeps in from the shadows to stare at the suspended carcass of a slaughtered goose, as if in mortal kinship.
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Much of the first act, which establishes the play's fractured chronology, takes place as that younger Renia is provisionally welcomed into a polyglot ménage that includes icy Pelagiya (Jessica Love), tight-lipped Aamani (Nadine Malouf) and furious Isabela (Nicole Villamil).
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Eventful and uninterrupted, with no chance to applaud the songs until Anna's love interest, Prince Hans, appears a third of the way through the first act, the opening suggests that "Frozen" might prove to be unusually coherent for a Disney musical.
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Through much of the first act of "A Walk With Mr. Heifetz," a world-premiere play by the cultural journalist James Inverne, the audience may be puzzling, too, wondering why the bored and irritated Heifetz (Adam Green) doesn't simply leave.
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As a chapter of history, it makes great drama, and for the first act "The Hello Girls," at 59E59 Theaters, is a rather thrilling thing — smart, human and sardonically feminist, with a lively ragtime-and-jazz score by Peter Mills.
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There is greater sense of arc to the two-hour-long first act, but after intermission "Decameron" starts to fizzle out, with some poignant vignettes — a group of older women sharing their love stories with the audience — seeming out of place.
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In the long scene that ends the first act, Ms. Churchill presents the actual content (much condensed, of course) of the Putney Debates of 1647, in which representatives of the newly victorious army considered what to do with their victory.
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Mr. Groff, dressed by costume designer Tom Broecker in ill-fitting khakis and a vintage blue shirt, appears to cave in on himself during the first act of the show, as if he doesn't even deserve to stand fully upright.
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The first act of Kentucky Route Zero came out in 2013, and the developer Cardboard Computer has been trickling out the rest of the acts and interludes in the intervening years, with the final fifth act releasing on Jan. 28.
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The first act revolves around the paranoid King Hjarne and his greedy cousin Drokan — the regent of the neighboring kingdom, who covets both Hjarne's land and his queen, Gertrude, and whose Iago-like insinuations turn Hjarne against his 12 sons.
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But from the moment they met in the first act of The Force Awakens, StormPilot was brought gloriously into this world and fueled with the fire of Tatooine by everyone from the stars themselves to The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson.
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The play's first act is largely hers, as Maggie tries tirelessly to talk her seemingly insensate husband (who's broken his foot while drunkenly jumping hurdles) into behaving at Big Daddy's birthday party and, more important, returning to their marital bed.
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Andy (Elliot Levey), the 48-year-old widower and father who gets the entire first act to himself, is pro-Leave, though he's far more concerned about reconnecting with his estranged daughter than with matters of state, at least at first.
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The Atlanteans weren't a big part of the set visit — they didn't feature in either of the two scenes we saw (although these scenes were likely both from the film's first act) and their role in the story wasn't discussed.
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But Mr. Trippett said that since it was an Italian opera, the work would almost certainly have been called "Sardanapalo" — so that is the title being used for a critical edition of the first act that will be published next year.
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Aside from her initial interaction with Hemsworth's Thor and Hiddleston's Loki in that first act, the next and final scene all three share (Hemsworth and Blanchett predominantly) is the big CGI-festooned battle scene that makes up the movie's climax.
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And earlier, Tom Price introduced the "Empowering Patients First Act" (later re-introduced by John McCain), which would in some cases remove protections for people with pre-existing conditions, a feature of Obamacare that nearly 90 percent of the country supports.
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The third Sex and the City film that almost happened, the version actor Kim Cattrall declined to sign on for, would have killed Mr. Big within the first act, according to an oral history with cast and creators of the iconic show.
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In his time as a House Representative for Georgia, Price has been a vocal critic of Obamacare, and proposed multiple bills to dismantle the Act, including the Empowering Patients First Act, a piece of legislation that would have repealed and replaced Obamacare.
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And as his first act in office, new President Tokayev nominated the 78-year-old leader's 55-year-old daughter Dariga as speaker of the senate, meaning she would automatically become president if Tokayev were to leave office before an election next year.
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The choreography is one of the film's biggest assets La La Land's first act sets up Mia and Sebastian's relationship with a terrific mixture of energy and gravity, as they banter, flirt, and dance through one classically staged pas de deux after another.
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Act II is largely dance: Mr. Wheeldon takes the fourth of Shakespeare's five acts and expands it into the jubilant, innocent peak of the whole ballet, in contrast with the adult miseries of the first act and the mature resolution of the third.
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The Taxpayer First Act calls for the private tax industry to continue on with the Free File program, but if they're being this dodgy about making the free tier easily accessible now, things might only get worse if the bill is signed.
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Obama's first act upon leaving office was to take a vacation, but we see a clear indication here that he wants to at least try to see if he can move the needle on issues that are important to him by speaking publicly.
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Structurally, The Conjuring 2 hews closely to the blueprint of the original: The first act is devoted to the escalation of paranormal incidents within the Hodgson household, with a particular focus on Janet (a wide-eyed Madison Wolfe) and her younger brother, Billy.
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Lloyd Blankfein, who has held a Twitter account since 2011 but never used it, wrote: Despite the barrage of criticism from all corners of the globe, Trump's first act on Friday morning when he woke up was to retweet praise for his decision.
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And while I think it could probably do with a smoother first act, the film as a whole gets into some really tough issues — like abusive men and absent fathers — and deals with them in surprisingly direct ways for a kids movie.
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The Manhattan Transfer, who in 1981 became the first act to win Grammy awards in the pop and jazz categories in the same year, collaborated with five-time Grammy winner Mervyn Warren for their latest album, which follows 2009's Chick Corea Songbook.
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In order to experience the full power of Nanette's last act, in which Gadsby deliberately stops being funny, we need to experience the context of her first act, complete with acknowledging her non-normative physical appearance, which gradually becomes a major subject.
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Its first act promises two interlocking character journeys with rich thematic potential: one of a woman realizing her rage at what has been done to her, and one of a man facing up to the mistakes he made with the best of intentions.
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Chairman Price's involvement in the Doc Caucus, supportive vote of MACRA, and his Empowering Patients First Act reflect his commitment to continually move toward fiscally responsible, value- and market-based care that will holistically improve the health of individuals and the country.
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While the show regularly displays examples of Sam's exhausting work life—the audition scene from the pilot remains a personal favorite—the first act of "Eulogy" reminded us that Sam not only loves what she does, but that she's really good at it.
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During the first act — sitting beneath the blue tent, amid the light-up spinners and glowing cocktail cups, a few rows away from the dirt ring, which smelled promisingly of popcorn and horse — I wondered if I had come to the right place.
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Add it up and, after a first act in which he was asked mostly to dunk, Plumlee has shown that he's capable of making all the passes anyone could want from a contemporary big man, even in the space of one game.
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True, the unintentional comedy keeps coming: the fetish-object glowing orb that appears at the end of the first act; the two dancers in the second act, encased in head-to-toe body stockings, who play humanoids that can't learn how to hug.
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Millay finishes the poem fairly quickly — she's briefly stuck on line 107, but hey, it rains, and she's off again — so she spends the rest of the first act engaged in what one of her biographers called an "epistolary striptease" with its editor.
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The director, Rupert Goold, collaborated with Mr. Bartlett on "King Charles III" and does even more nuanced work this time, with a Chekhovian sense of life caught in the moment compromised only by a first-act conclusion that tilts toward melodramatic excess.
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Yet such is the sheer theatrical verve of Mr. Greif's production — which features one of the liveliest, largest and busiest casts to be found Off Broadway — that the face-splitting grin it puts on your face in the first act never fades entirely.
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Two scene changes in the first act slow the proceedings just when the tension should be ratcheting up, notwithstanding the presence of an A-list design team in Christopher Oram (sets and costumes) and Neil Austin (lighting), both of whom are Tony winners.
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But if the tightening noose of that "green-eyed monster," jealousy, doesn't exert the grip that it has in the past, here's at least a rare opportunity to experience an "Othello" from which you emerge — from the first act, anyway — wanting to grin.
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Mr. Kim, in a gesture of reconciliation, offered to send athletes to the Winter Olympics in South Korea — the first act in a public relations makeover for the young dictator, who only a few months later invited Mr. Trump to meet with him.
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The first act consists of three short, sharp duologues set in a Chinese restaurant followed after the intermission by a longer second act that brings all the men together amid the melee of the office where they are all busy chasing leads.
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Its score, by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, adheres without fault to all the musical theater rules, including the one that suggests pounding your hit number ("Journey to the Past," from the movie) for all it's worth at the first-act curtain.
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The play's streamlined style is most effective in the first act (entirely focused on the college scenes) and less in the second, which suffers from awkward tonal shifts and attempts to pack a lot of emotional load into a short amount of time.
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The first act is particularly frantic, yet its most striking moments are its quietest, as when the cast — which includes nine other actors in a variety of roles — takes a few minutes to draw the Galilee hills on the walls of the set.
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The show, inspired by the painting "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte," has a first act imagining the artwork's creation by the painter Georges Seurat, and a second act, set a century later, imagining the artistic struggles of the painter's great-grandson.
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A cardinal rule for spinning out a compelling drama, the old master Anton Chekov wisely suggested, holds that a rifle seen hanging on the wall in the first act had better go off with a bang before the final curtain comes down.
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When Mr. Nézet-Séguin urged Mr. Flórez to sing the drinking song in the first act softly, as the score indicates — to underscore that Alfredo is still insecure and sexually inexperienced — he drove the point home in a characteristically good-humored way.
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With farmers suffering across the country, the first act of the new cabinet was to extend a program of cash handouts to cover 20 million more farm workers — a sector that Mr. Trump wants to open to more competition from American growers.
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If you've had to rely on watching bad Hamilton parodies in lieu of shelling out a small fortune to catch Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit Broadway musical, Christmas may not be over for you because someone has posted the entire first act on Pornhub.
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Democrats can now argue both in the immediate term and later on ahead of the 2018 midterms that the first act of the Republican-led 115th Congress was to destroy an office intended to prevent and expose bribery and other corruption on Capitol Hill.
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And even though most of the right-wing MPs sat on their hands when she called for action on violence against women during her inaugural speech, the new Parliament's first act was to unanimously ratify an international treaty requiring states to tackle domestic violence.
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A pragmatist to the core, Mr Mnangagwa's first act on the day he took over his department in 1980 was to visit the police station where he had been tortured by the white regime after his capture for trying to blow up a train.
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As we learn more about the secret agency and the role it plays in both the world and universe, the subtext of this first act encounter crystalizes: Immigrants will come, one way or another, and we'll handle the few bad apples when they pop up.
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Senator Ron Wyden, who previously introduced a bill that included return-free filing and now supports the Taxpayer First Act, called TurboTax's efforts to reduce access to the Free File program "outrageous," and told ProPublica that he would be raising the matter with the IRS.
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Trudeau, whose first act after taking power in 2015 was to appoint a cabinet with an equal number of women and men, told an event broadcast on Facebook that ending inequalities between the sexes was the right thing to do and would benefit the economy.
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In hindsight, it is not hard to see how that first act of brutality foreshadowed what happened last week: Armed with a knife, Mr. Abballa attacked a couple in northern France in the name of the Islamic State and left them to bleed to death.
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The first act, Streb Extreme Action, may have offered a respite from following the political circus, or not, depending on your relationship to watching people hurl their bodies against wooden boards or test their balance on towering steel beams, which can be just as stressful.
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"My very first act as your MP when I arrive in Westminster will be to find Boris Johnson, wherever he's hiding, and tell him loud and clear — stop playing with the futures of our communities and rule out a no-deal Brexit," Dodds said.
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Implicit in the choice to take up an electoral-reform bill as the first act of the new Democratic majority in the House was the decision to confront not only these injustices but, more fundamentally, the forces that have allowed them to come into existence.
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A first-act highlight — where Bob Mackie (Michael Berresse) parades out a handful of Cher's most iconic dresses in a fashion show of sorts during "Dressed to Kill" — had the audience cheering, and showcased the electricity that's a bit more muted in other parts.
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Brand's seven seasons with the Clippers—six, really, as he only played in eight games in '07-08, the season that marked the end of his career's first act and the start of its final one—produced one winning record, and one brief playoff run.
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The frankly bizarre emergence of a new witness after 20 years of silence, which makes up the story's first act, is quickly abandoned in favor of talking about Naughright—or, to be more specific, recording a lot of (mostly negative) opinions about Jamie Naughright's character.
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In February, he pairs the first act of Wagner's "Die Walküre" (starring Heidi Melton and Simon O'Neill) with the New York premiere of John Luther Adams's "Dark Waves," and two weeks later conducts Prokofiev and Brahms before leading the orchestra on an Asian tour.
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The audience for her awfulness, in the first act anyway, consists of Ms. Metcalf as B, her fiftyish seen-it-all caretaker, and Ms. Pill as C, an uptight twentysomething emissary from her lawyer's office, trying to bring order to a chaos of unpaid bills.
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Rumor also has it that a young Barack Obama caught the performance during his Columbia days, according to one BAM executive who briefly spoke with me about the musical's history before the first act opened on this year's production at Shakespeare in the Park.
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Another trick: In the first act, when she is on stage for quite a long time before she speaks, she sometimes puts a cough drop in her mouth and lets it slowly dissolve, believing that an instinctive impulse to prevent choking will keep her awake.
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Oh yes, Caissie Levy, who plays that ice-cursed royal in Disney's stage adaptation of the hit animated musical "Frozen," was muttering the first words of the ubiquitous anthem and winding up to blow the house down at the end of the show's first act.
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Photograph by Joanne Leonard Mills rejects the well-made Hollywood script, which bullies us into empathy for the main character by picking on him in the first act and giving him increasingly sizable obstacles to overcome—then rewards us with a gauzy scene of affirmation.
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When Uggams sang "Being Good Isn't Good Enough," at the end of the first act, she knew what she was talking about—she was, after all, a black actress trying to make it on Broadway in the sixties: Being good won't be good enough.
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Particularly memorable is the soaring anthem that closes the first act, and is reprised in the second, "You Will Be Found," which becomes one of the rallying cries for the social media movement that the death of Connor — and Evan's speech about him — incites.
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The stagings I saw, a "Tristan" whose first-act ship was represented by a series of Escher-like stairways, and a "Götterdämmerung" with a climactic scene in front of the New York Stock Exchange, would have been unrecognizable to audiences of a century ago.
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No. of deals: 2Value of deals: $35.7 billionAfter a first act growing into the top M&A banker at Salomon Brothers and Salomon Smith Barney in the 1980s and 1990s, Michael Carr joined Goldman Sachs as a partner in 1998 for his second act.
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Throughout the first act of Mr. Maillot's two-act "Shrew," it's extremely hard to tell (or care) who most of the lead characters are, especially as Mr. Maillot starts the show with a sexy female star who turns out to be a very peripheral housekeeper.
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"The clearest route to bring the voice of taxpayers into the implementation of the Taxpayer First Act … is to ensure that the Taxpayer Advocate Service is substantively involved in the implementation process," the senators wrote in a letter this week to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig.
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That's when she went viral for saying her first act as president would be to call the prime minister of New Zealand to tell her "Girl, you are so on" when it comes to making the U.S. the best place to raise a child.
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Only during a first-act duet called "Click," though, does the material snap to life, abetted by a tap routine that fairly bursts with enthusiasm, as Artie (Chris Kiely), an older photojournalist, reassures Stu that he is far from alone in his same-sex leanings.
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Simon Daw's cunning set moves from a vividly realized tonsorial parlor in the first act to a domestic interior for the second two acts, whose carpet shows a phrenology chart that contains in its imagery the varying attitudes toward life that course through the play.
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The first act of the newly reshaped FTC should be to clean house and abandon irresponsible legal action taken by their predecessors, as part of the broader effort to roll back the harmful and often unconstitutional policies that defined the administrative state under President Obama.
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Still, though—even if these three incidents are just signaling the start of yet another normal flu season and not serving as the first act of a disaster movie, it doesn't help that most tray tables on airplanes have more germs than the bathrooms.
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Linda Blumberg at the Urban Institute released new data this morning estimating what type of plan you could buy if you only used the proposed tax credits in the Empowering Patients First Act from Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price — and didn't spend anything beyond.
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But Mr. Grammer has been brought in to fill the double supporting roles of Barrie's American producer, Charles Frohman, and of Captain Hook (replacing a very good Michael McGrath), the fictional creation who in this version springs out of Barrie's id for the first-act finale.
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Even though it takes the characters a while to get on the same page – they've led such different lives that much of the first act is just them trying to figure out what to make of each other – Gadot and Pine are instantly fun to watch together.
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Ann Wagner's Put Trafficking Victims First Act, which directs the attorney general to ensure prosecutors are trained in how to investigate and process cases where a victim has suffered trauma, and encourages states to provide child welfare services and trauma-informed programming to victims of human trafficking.
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"The first act of revolution is to get together with others because the system wants you alone, it wants you to be an individualist," said Cristian Diaz, one of roughly 2000,000 people who gathered on a balmy afternoon on Saturday in the Yungay neighborhood in central Santiago.
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A lot of it takes place during other people's lines, which is why I really try to listen to the conversation among the adults at the end of the first act—I think that's when she realized she was only imagining that people wanted to kill her.
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I don't want to say too much about it, save that Murder Café's motto is "Killing audiences one laugh at a time since 1998," and as I sat through Friday night's first act, a grin plastered to my face like so much cement, that seemed about right.
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Through a series of close readings peppered with gossip and autobiographical anecdotes, Viertel lays out the formal precepts: an early "I Want" song, in which the hero reveals his most ardent desires; a first-act climax with "a crisis that seems completely beyond redemption"; and so on.
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By the close of the first act, a love letter has been accidentally faxed to Dick's office, and Sylvère has told Dick about Chris's feelings in an excruciating phone conversation that he had the presence of mind to record in order to play it back for Chris.
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"As its first act, the Committee has voted to release to the Department of Justice and its components, including the Special Counsel's Office, transcripts of testimony taken before the Committee during the 115th Congress, with no restrictions on their use," Schiff said in a statement Wednesday.
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