Word: bathe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they had last seen in 1979. They stepped through the passport stamper's booth and up to the desk of the Immigration and Naturalization Service official, a sympathetic woman, for fingerprinting and more stamps. They carried their things (a portable tape player, a jar of noodles soaked in vinegar, bath slippers) past the Department of Agriculture inspector and out. The young Santiagos had never been to Los Angeles, let alone the U.S. And yet, as of last Thursday afternoon, they were here to stay...
...says he is "tired of traveling, traveling, traveling, just to make a living." He waves off the idea of settling in to run a large resident theater: "If I had the worries that Trevor Nunn does at the Royal Shakespeare Company, I would absolutely open my veins in the bath." He resents the very existence of critics: "Twenty years of being reconstituted in newsprint has worn me out." With extravagantly pouty self-mockery, he sums up: "My life has consisted of asking people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretend they are somebody else...
...lives were lost. But despite attempts to drain the new lake, the water has continued to rise at a rate of 4 in. an hour, fed by melting mountain snow. At least part of Thistle could be underwater for good. Commented State Geologist Bruce Kaliser, who claimed the mud bath was the largest in the area in 1,000 years: "It's the year of the slide...
...comedies have the flavor of Freud filtered through Groucho. In Beyond Therapy and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, Durang, like so many writers of the TV generation, found it easier to crack neurotic one-liners than to tell a story. But in Baby with the Bath Water, at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, he wobbles toward a narrative. The play follows Daisy (impersonated first by a girl doll, then by a hairy young man) from terrifying infancy, mute childhood and promiscuous adolescence to touchingly optimistic parenthood...
...Harvard's production, giddily directed by Actor Mark Linn-Baker (My Favorite Year), are adept, but only Daisy (Stephen Rowe) is given a moment of credible self-awareness. If Durang could bring a touch of the play's final forgiveness to its early scenes, Baby with the Bath Water would mark a major advance in an already noteworthy career...