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An ostensible paean to the thesping profession and its wacky, lovable practitioners, this dysfunctional-family/romantic seriocomedy in fact occasions plenty of bad acting, making this an interminable belabor of love that will have trouble finding an audience in any format.

He states, "We learned a long time ago that we couldn't attract an audience if our primary subjects were environmental problems." Yet most environmental curricula today, whether formal education or "fun" activities created by environmental groups, belabor the problems and are dominated by "prescriptions, commandments and statements of fact."

No wonder they gleefully bump each other off every three years for a dubious word, an inappropriate accent, or an occupied mountain pasture." It's the offhanded way Waberi goes about his satire that makes his critique as devastating as it is; he doesn't belabor the scenario, he casually inverts cultural references (not Fay Wray's King Kong but Miriam Makeba's, not Courbet's The Origin of the World but Gustavio Mbembe's) and twists the thoughtless rhetoric that's been used so often to flatten and homogenize Africa in literature.

There is an old saying: "Never argue with a man who owns a printing press." So I will not belabor the many inaccuracies and distortions in Mr.

In our office we've been calling this issue "The Brave Ones." I won't belabor the reference, but you get it.

like an afternoon cloudburst, and I don't want to be belabor

Although Collins has occasionally voiced support for efforts to hold the White House accountable, she'd prefer not to belabor the point.

To claim that it is a timely treatment would simply belabor the point.

But my point is not to belabor these mill closings.

Our point here is not to belabor the issue of electronic filing, but to point out that many of these issues might have been resolved if the IRS had considered how its mandate would compound the burdens of other governmental mandates (such as those imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act) and taxpayers had been consulted before the regulations were issued.

I don't think we need to belabor the point--everyone in the field knows that the faster we can move away from that image, the better.

It's fair to raise the issue of credentials, since the prime line of attack by the light infantry is to belabor the credentials of the antiwar left as dumbos, cat's-paws, dictator-lovers, cultists.

* Not to belabor the obvious, but the main purpose of a mirror is to provide a reflected image.

For example, this picture of a snowplow in action on the cover of the Iowa Department of Transportation's employee newsletter does not belabor the obvious.