Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...someone of his age, he's incredible," said Salem Coach Grant Longley, 45, who needed players after four former team members were knocked out of competition by poor grades. Sweeney, studying French and piano, and majoring in physical education so he can eventually return to coaching, is a solid B student. BOSTON COLLEGE...
...still on your plate," Sabina the maid tells us early in Thornton Wilder's The Skin Of Our Teeth. And this would seem to be good advice to follow in a play that shows the cyclical and precarious nature of life at such a fast pace that the Ice Age, the Depression and the invention of the alphabet are simultaneous events...
After an Ice-Age news bulletin that announces the sighting of a sunrise, we enter the scene with an introduction from Sabina (Kristin Gasser), who services the Antrobus family of Excelsior, New Jersey. As the too-big-for-her-britches and too-bright-for-her-job housekeeper warns us, this play makes no sense. "It can't even decide if we're living in caves or in New Jersey," she declares. Throughout the play, Sabina, portrayed with superb wit and giddiness by Gasser, continues to step outside of the drama and remind us that this is only a play...
...SECOND act opens with the cast in surfer garb dancing in the aisles to "Under The Boardwalk" a la Wuthering Heights. But why not? Happy days are here again, the Ice Age has thawed, the dinosaur is extinct, the tomato is edible and the human race celebrates at a convention of mammals in Atlantic City...
Just look at the raising of the drinking age. Despite the fact that statistics show that people age 21 to 25 drink and drive just as much as 18 to 21-year-olds, no politician would have dared suggest that the drinking age be raised to 25. Politicians just don't lose any votes by acting against the best-wishes of college-age students, but they know that slightly older, working people will get their revenge at the next election if they feeled wronged...