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Word: broadway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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BESIDE HERSELF. If you were an off-Broadway producer who had hired movie star William Hurt, would you cast him as a crude, subliterate UPS deliveryman who has little to do, and less to say, in a fantasy piece centered on a pathetic and prematurely old widow? If so, you would disappoint audiences as keenly as New York City's Circle Repertory is doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 13, 1989 | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

MASTERGATE. The President dozes away his afternoons. A paranoid National Security Adviser travels by Stealth bomber. The true head of Government is a secretive CIA director who also happens to be dead. Larry Gelbart's fiercely funny Broadway satire lampoons events that made the evening news the sharpest comedy on TV. Joseph Daly is a dead-on George Bush, and the dialogue is an S.J. Perelmanesque stream -- debased, obfuscatory and unconsciously self- condemning. Samples: "I wonder if I might ask the Senator to stop raking over dead horses"; "What did the President know, and does he have any idea that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Nov. 13, 1989 | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Frayn's fast-paced Broadway hit, Noises Off, runs at the Loeb Mainstage this weekend. Revolving around the staging of a second-rate sex romp by a down and out theater, Noises Off will play next weekend as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arts on Campus | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

...tenant on Broadway says he would move if rent control vanished because, "If these apartments weren't rent control they would probably be over $800 a month--then you might as well buy a house...

Author: By Suzanne PETREN Moritz, | Title: The Human Side of Proposition 1-2-3 | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...tenant on Broadway, for instance, describes his family as "a young, professional, both-working couple without kids." And he says, "I don't see rent control as having affordable housing for people. They would only rent to people like...

Author: By Suzanne PETREN Moritz, | Title: The Human Side of Proposition 1-2-3 | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

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