Word: browsings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"A field without grass is an eyesore," wrote the Roman poet Ovid, "so is a tree without leaves, so is a head without hair." For centuries, bald and balding men have winced at such unkind references to their predicament. Conditioned to regard hairlessness as a male curse second only to...
When Clarice Conley was nine years old, her mother and grandmother began the initiation. Dressed in her finest, shoes shiny, gloves pristine, she was allowed to follow them through the heavy oak doors of the Highland Park Ebell Club in the hills of northeastern Los Angeles. In the cavernous main...
EVERYONE'S favorite character has to be Rupert Cadell (Laith Zawawi), the cynical intellectual who has been a mentor to Brandon since childhood, and who immediately suspects the cruel joke behind the dinner party. Zawawi plays Rupert as a hunched, scowling cripple with knitted brows, a vaguely Rumanian accent and...
There was a brief pause as many members scratched their chins and crinkled their brows in an attempt to stimulate thought.
Sweettable is not a complete disaster; Ribman is a smart guy, and there are many good ideas and clever chunks of writing in this work. The superb cast and designers work hard to bring out the best of this dramatic turnip, and damned if they don't squeeze out a...