Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawyer conceded that "outside legal action is a possibility" once Berkowitz has exhausted Harvard's internal avenues for appeal...
...BankBoston Celebrity Series brought the Panazz players back to light up Symphony Hall again this year. They performed last March for the first time in the Boston area and were back before Thanksgiving with more steel drum action. Opening the concert was Ken "Professor" Philmore, who has performed with the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Tito Puente and Cassandra Wilson in the past. Philmore's pan solos got the crowd in the mood, but his band struggled to keep up with him. Philmore is a pan master and has been playing steel drums since he was four years old, beginning...
Wait Until Dark requires deft stage direction and vigilant consistency since the story unfolds in real-time and the action rarely leaves the interior of the house. Ironically, the tight stage space of the Pool Theater allows this production to rise to the occasion. With careful attention to detail and placement, the crew has recreated the quaint apartment of Suzy and Sam Hendrix. Visible to the audience are the kitchen (complete with refrigerator, washer, etc.) and the living room, while the brief scenes in the bedroom are conveyed using illuminated character shadows...
...coverage had been different, less entertaining, Americans would have cared at all. If turning life into a movie helps us to understand what is going on and sympathize with others in situations far from our own, perhaps this approach is the best, the most morally upstanding, course of action...
...based on Euripides' account of Greek mythology in which a complex scenario involving Gods, mortals, family vendettas and suppressed libido interact in a whirlwind of death and revenge. The plot itself is a vast intertwining of story lines, rooted in a background of bestiality and Amazon romance. The pivotal action focuses on Phaedra, wife of Theseus, who becomes consumed with an incestuous desire to pursue her own stepson, Hypolytus. Inevitably, the plot thickens as emotional disclosure and interpersonal confrontation complicate the dynamics of this severely disturbed and dysfunctional family...