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...make Honey and Nick so ludicrously two-dimensional, for it undermines the true cruelty of George and Martha's manipulations if we feel Honey and Nick aren't worthy of anything better. Susan Santoian dresses Martha as too conspicuous a floozy; all that's missing is a feather boa...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Before War of the Roses | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

...addition to the now legendary alligators, there were cows, beagles, macaws, raccoons, goats, geese, ponies, pigs and skunks (not descented), all welcome members of the famously unorthodox Reno household. "Daddy would come out of the bathroom and say, 'Would somebody get this' -- and you can interject pelican, otter, & boa constrictor -- 'out of here so I can take a bath,' " explains Maggy Reno Hurchalla, Janet's sister, a county commissioner in central Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth, Justice and the Reno Way | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

...Centrum stop on the Zoo TV tour also served as a birthday celebration for bassist Adam Clayton. In honor of Clayton's birthday, the band toasted him with champagne and led the crowd in singing "Happy Birthday," and a female "bunny-gram" bearing balloons adorned Clayton with bright pink boa...

Author: By Rita L. Berardino, | Title: U2: Not As Good As the REAL THING | 3/20/1992 | See Source »

Myrrhine is one such caricature, a sparkling and ditsy seductress. The scene in which she woos husband Kinesias (Adam Geyer) is one of the most memorable of the show. Kleo, another caricature, enlivens the stage, punctuating her lines with grand gestures of a feather boa. Raz and Weller give polished performances as well...

Author: By Amanda Schaffer, | Title: No Sex Please, We're Athenian | 10/25/1991 | See Source »

...usual method -- by means of force, this time ordered by a President empowered to do so. Such is the dramatic and even tragic nature of the present situation: instead of moving ahead toward doing away with the empire, we have become like rabbits transfixed before a boa constrictor. All we are doing is returning to an age of centralization and dictatorship -- this time in the form of the presidency, since the President of a disintegrating Soviet Union can only emerge as its dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviet Empire: Essay: Why the Empire Should Crumble | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

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