Word: basement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PARTY and THE BASEMENT are two one-acters by Harold Pinter. In Tea Party, Sisson, a manufacturer of bidets, is thrown into a catatonic state at an office tea party by the ambiguous relationships of his family and his secretary. The Basement is about a man and his girl friend who move in to share an old chum's flat...
...PARTY and THE BASEMENT. In all Harold Pinter plays the surface is never the substance, and the meaning lies in the eye and mind of the beholder. In Tea Party, a middle-aged manufacturer of bidets is pushed into what may be his death throes by the interactions of his secretary, his wife and his wife's brother. The Basement deals with the relations of two men and a girl who share a basement flat...
...first blind student to go through Harvard, although he does predate the reading rooms in the basement of Emerson. They were finished in 1966, partially due to a study Hal did for the now defunct Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs. Hal was an English major, and lived in Adams House. He prefers using readers to Braille books or tapes; for himself, he finds readers faster and more flexible, and it is also a way of meeting new people -- a perennial problem for the blind. Harvard makes no special dispensation as to the science requirement. Hal took...
...PARTY and THE BASEMENT. Harold Pinter provokes a devilishly clever sort of participatory theater in which the playgoer is lured into playing detective without any clues. In Tea Party, a middle-aged manufacturer of bidets is driven into a catatonic state by the interactions of his secretary, his wife and her brother. The Basement has two old friends vying for the affections of a girl with whom they share a basement flat...
Secretary Hickel releases plans to divert the Mississippi River through Alaska and build a $500-million amusement park called "Tom Sawyer's Bargain Basement." Selective Service rejects David Eisenhower's claim that he is a Quaker by marriage, and dispatches young Eisenhower to South Vietnam...