1.   All seven characters are drawn with illuminating detail and superbly played by an outstanding young company.

2.   Even the tangential characters are wittily drawn.

3.   Other classes in the animation series include drawing Disney characters, computer animation and perfecting character voices.

4.   Appelfeld creates an absorbing world of idiosyncratic, self-absorbed types, but draws his characters through understatement.

5.   Anonymous draws his characters with lapidary precision.

6.   As we follow the adults through large and small events, from unwanted pregnancies to skiing holidays, each character is vividly drawn.

7.   Audiences come to know the characters so intimately that writers can be extremely subtle in drawing their characters.

8.   A strange series of coincidences draws the characters to a Clippers game, compelling them to buy Nikes and monitor the Hale-Bopp comet.

9.   All three characters are enticingly drawn, especially Jesse, who is in love with a woman who happens to be his first cousin.

10.   All the characters are skillfully drawn as long as they are expressing themselves obliquely and mundanely.