Word: biff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Miller depicts what he calls "the tragedy of the working class" in Willy Loman (Hal Holbrook), a salesperson whose idealism leads him to ignore his status as an insignificant cog in the American economic machine. Even when his favorite son, Biff (Matt Mulhern), confronts him with this reality as his wife Linda (Elizabeth Franz) watches in tears, Willy refuses to acknowledge his mediocrity...
Scribble, the narrator, and his gang of no-goods are seriously messing with "vurt," or virtual reality. Hallucinatory interactive dramas are encoded in synthetic feathers, and a person can waft away from everyday life by brushing the back of his throat with a feather tip. Fantasies range from harmless, biff-bam adventures through warm-and-fuzzy childhood memories, to varieties of porn, and on to malign alternate worlds that appear to be not just virtual but actual, and that permanently suck in vurt addicts...
...guys and gals, this is Biff Bixley with the scores. Another great night for baseball. Dingers were flying everywhere. Thirty-two home runs, including a clout by Matt Williams of the Giants that looks like it went into orbit. Roll that tape! Is this ball juiced or what? With 44 taters, the Mattmeister has now moved ahead of Roger Maris' record pace. But the big news was in Cleveland, where Albert Belle crushed two homers, including this titanic upper-deck shot, to lead the Tribe to a 9-3 victory over the Brewers. For the first time since...
...Harvard. Everyone here assumes that you were brilliant in high school, that you racked up the honors, that you shone. (Or that a) you play hockey like a pro or b) Daddy, Uncle Biff, Granddaddy and Great-Granddaddy went here.) Everyone assumes that somehow you were great in high school. Everyone. Your dormmates, your teaching fellows, your career counselors...
...student actors also make appearances insmall roles. Serena Kortepeter '96 plays thesecretary of Willy's neighbor Bernard and one ofthe women that Biff and Happy pick up in arestaurant. Ross Benjamin '96 plays the friendlywaiter in that same restaurant scene. Both actorsseem to be fully at ease with the professionalcast...