Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, in the political and geographic center of London theater, the Old Guard holds forth with style and swagger. Early this month the bedroom farce No Sex, Please-We're British notched its 5,000th performance; Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is cadging tourists in its 31st year; Andrew Lloyd Webber still has three musicals running (Evita, Cats and Song and Dance), with a new show promised for the fall. Peter Ustinov has donned a peruke and a music-hall German accent to star in his own caustic comedy, Beethoven's Tenth. London's two major...
...discretion and closed doors. He suggests that anyone who walks in on two co-workers should beat a hasty retreat and pretend that he saw nothing. Mazzei warns that sex on business trips is particularly hazardous. "Some nighttime behavior at conventions can take on the look of a cheap bedroom farce." But if someone cannot restrain himself or herself, Mazzei advises bringing along a companion. Or, barring that, perhaps a good book...
...over the years, Elliott sending Wohl a red, white and blue license plate declaring, "God, Guns and Guts Made America/Let's Keep All Three." The two women, meanwhile, still laugh over his admission that, as a pre-Watergate tyke, he hung a framed picture of Richard Nixon on his bedroom wall...
...father was the late James Broderick, a fine actor and the star of the long-running TV series Family. Patsy is a playwright turned artist, and there was almost always someone interesting for Matthew and his two older sisters to talk to in their big four-bedroom apartment, overlooking Washington Square in Greenwich Village. Shy when he was growing up, Matthew for a time gave up his dream of acting, but the role of Snout in a high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream hooked him. Before that, both parents said not a word about acting; after...
Finally, after about 10 seconds the patient takes a breath. The functions return to their previous appearances. A television monitor, displaying the darkened bedroom for those outside watching the readout, reveals that the man is once again breathing fairly normally...