But Nikki's still uncertain about intimacy and asks her worldlier neighbor Lysterine ( Vivica A . Fox, of " Independence Day " and " Set It Off " fame ) to chaperone the date.
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Wearing a two-tone knit shirt, his black hair cropped short, Byrne is a worldlier, mellower and only slightly grayer version of the jittery rocker who once projected an aura of otherworldly detachment on stage and off.
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The son of a Torah scribe who occasionally allowed the boy to illuminate the capital letters of manuscripts, he made a surprising leap _ at a tender age _ from his provincial Orthodox community to the worldlier art milieus of Berlin and Dresden.
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Fry gave Anouilh's sententious declarations on the mysteries of love and life a Wildean ring, and the play's presiding grande dame ( played here by Marian Seldes ) can indeed come across as a worldlier version of Lady Bracknell.
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And you have, not least in Friel's earlier plays . ( He is a worldlier version of the schoolmaster Brian Dennehy played last year in " Translations " and the title character embodied so wonderfully by James Mason in the 1979 Broadway production of " Faith Healer . ")
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The wittier, worldlier " Salome " could be called " a struggle between a woman of the New World and a man of the Old, " but this time, the Old World man is an old New York WASP and the New World woman is a first-generation American Jew.
