Word: boos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Stopping for lunch at an upscale Crepe-Away diner, I'm taken aback by the sheer normality of the scene. Young people hanging out and flirting? Check. Bad American pop music on the loudspeakers? Yeah, got that. Families playing peek-a-boo with their kids over menus? That, too. It was a typical Lebanese scene and one that would be instantly recognizable in, say, northern California. It was easy to forget that just a few miles down the mountain roads, people could suffer an Israeli air strike at any minute - in fact, if there had been any bombings, we would...
...boo-hoo. The movies have been telling these career-girl romances since Joan Crawford was a pup, and the notion that hard-driving bosses may have hearts of nougat underneath their crunchy dark chocolate coats is not exactly a novel one either. You can't blame Hathaway, who is a winsome actress, for this resort to cliché. When she has to out-maneuver Miranda's other assistant (Emily Blunt) for the most favored spot in the executive suite, she shows plenty of moxie. You're not exactly certain she knows exactly what she's doing, but you also...
...What an awful trap that would be.” The play, along those lines, explores how today’s world might not be so inviting to return to.Durang’s other plays toy with similarly sacrosanct themes. “The Marriage of Bette and Boo,” which also earned him an Obie in 1985, deals with a relationship bittered by alcoholism and stillbirths. “The Vietnamization of New Jersey,” a strange parody of a satire, addresses the hypocrisy of both Vietnam War supporters and protesters. But his works...
...biting. It’s social, it’s political, truly an American voice.” Durang’s most popular plays include “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You” and “The Marriage of Bette and Boo,” both winners of the prestigious Obie awards, the Off-Broadway Theater Awards bestowed by The Village Voice. The Harvard theater community has maintained a close relationship with Durang, performing his plays and sketches several times over the past decades. Benjamin J. Toff ’05, who directed...
...single, but the tabloids have spotted you with British model Eishia Blackwell. Is Eishia your boo? [Pause.] I'm single, like I said. I'm not married...