Word: bond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...permanent commitment that a true sacramental marriage involves--a maturity that is unfortunately not always found among those who pronounce their marriage vows before the altar. The church will always face the challenge of maintaining the balance between responsibly proclaiming the ideal of permanence of the marriage bond and giving relief and compassion to those whose marriages have totally failed. (The Rev.) JOSEPH A. FAHY Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta Atlanta...
...stage before Duke Theseus in honor of his wedding. The play's most richly, broadly comic scenes fall to these characters, and the actors in this production pull off them off with sheer genius. As individual comic actors, the players are consistently hilarious; as a group, they forge a bond of buffoonery that transcends description. Their crowning glory--the final scene of the play, in which their "comical tragedy" is at last presented before the court--could hardly be better executed than it is by these players...
...course, their bond with one another doesn't matter all that much if they don't also connect with their audience. McNally wrote Frankie and Johnny early in his career, before Master Class and Love! Valour! Compassion! made him a latter-day B-way comic bard. Here, he plays the beginner's trick of substituting theme or plot with sparkling layers of verbal gift wrap...
...Thursday speech on the state of the economy. "Greenspan Hints Fed Will Let Rates Stand" was the headline in Friday's Washington Post, while USA Today preferred "Greenspan Hints at New Rate Increase." The New York Times went with a literal "Greenspan Defends Fed's Rate Policy." Meanwhile, bond traders hit the phones with sell orders, betting that a May 20th rise in interest rates was in the cards. Friday, by the time stock markets opened, investors were following the Post's view that Greenspan's remarks mean a rise is now less likely. The Dow quickly...
...playing a successful lawyer named Jack Lawrence, in close, impatient proximity to Robin Williams, playing a failed playwright-poet named Dale Putley. "You know from the outset that their quest will quickly become a shared one, that the hip careerist and the careerless former hippy will bicker and ultimately bond. You can?t say the script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel makes the most of this contrast -- too many side trips into bathroom humor -- but it does feed the stars enough decent patter to keep them ticking in their disparate ways." Reitman does provide two nice casting surprises...