Word: astes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forsake the convent and wed the Duke? Still, her two lengthy interviews with Angelo, in the first half of the play, are, both intellectually and dramatically, the two great scenes in the work (partly adumbrated by Portia in The Merchant of Venice). Christina Pickles, in her debut with the AST, could use a wider vocal range: but she does manage to summon up a good deal of force in her second confrontation with Angelo...
...other encounters. The Motel Lady takes him for her own, and he saunters into the boudoir of the 250-pound proprietress at her beck and call, always with the blank pleasantness we reserve for meeting long-lost aunts. The teenage unwed mother is Sally's only child, Jessie (Pat Ast), who constantly sends her mother into hysterical fits ("You're not a lesbian--it's a temporary thing!"), especially with her half-successful attempts at seducing Joey. And the standard symbolic figures of Hollywood sterility abound: the cliche-laden director of kitsch; the ex-husband, short, stooped and Jewish, armed...
...Porter fad, like all good things, will come to an end in a while. Some other neglected songwriter, performer, or film star will replace him ast he culture hero of the hour. But, while he is around, enjoy...
Only occasionally is anything heard ??om the elderly in Cambridge. Sixty-??ree per cent of the elderly persons ??? Cambridge (those over 65) pay ???ore than half their income for rent. ???ast Wednesday's public hearing on rent increases was the first time that anyone representing the elderly spoke out on rent control. Catherine Handley of the Committee for the elderly approached the microphone after most everyone else had spoken. A young tenant jumped up to adjust the microphone for the short grey-haired lady in a prim blue pillbox hat. She didn't really say anything different from...