Word: busman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When American stage professionals head off to London for a busman's holiday of playgoing, the standard witticism is that they are getting a head start on the upcoming season back home. Britain, long a supplier of straight plays and now seemingly the only source of successful musicals, this past season exported shows that won twelve of Broadway's 19 Tony Awards. The current London stage features seven works already announced for U.S. production; others are under consideration. In addition are the star-cast classics, adaptations of great novels, formula thrillers, trousersdown farces and sociopolitical dramas that make London during...
...first busman during past seasons, Schools easily switched to short this year a position she played on her high school squad, which she says "was about as good as the team we have here...
...Bethany Hays, 32, typifies the new style. At home in Houston, she changes the diapers of her infant son Josh. It is a kind of busman's holiday. Hays is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Baylor College of Medicine and medical director of its lactation clinic. On a typical night call at the clinic, she delivers as many as four new arrivals. She and Husband Ray, 38, a psychologist, have successfully blended hectic careers and child care by unrelenting planning. When she began her residency seven years ago, Hays was already mentally preparing for her first...