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...stage perhaps takes understated symbolism just a little too far. Props, costumes, walls--everything is white, the white of outmoded Edwardian prudery. An iron lattice like the bars of a cage, also white, forms a backdrop. By providing so much evidence of the family's obsession with respectability, the stage manager insults the viewer's intelligence...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Witty, Elegant Misalliance | 1/30/1992 | See Source »

Racing down the right wing on a breakaway seven minutes into the third period against Dartmouth, Martins was guided into the right side of the cage by an overzealous Big Green blue-liner...

Author: By Ted G. Rose and Jay K. Varma, S | Title: Icemen Feel At Home On Road | 1/8/1992 | See Source »

After rocking the net from its moornings and flying with it into the wall, Martins stood up and pushed the cage away in disgust...

Author: By Ted G. Rose and Jay K. Varma, S | Title: Icemen Feel At Home On Road | 1/8/1992 | See Source »

Granted, years from now when archaeologists dig up my bones, they'll find these two blobs of unidentifiable substances clinging to the back of my rib cage or sitting on my pelvis or somewhere else. However, I no longer have to feel like a Twinkieless stranger in my own land. I have had Zoinks! and nothing will stand...

Author: By Jonathan A. Bresman, | Title: Quest for a Kosher Twinkie | 1/8/1992 | See Source »

...have felt the one thing that would be very dangerous to me would be to become an institutionalized prisoner, to give up control of my life to the people whose job it is to look after me. That's why I have constantly pushed against the bars of the cage and tried to make it a bit bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free Speech Is Life Itself: SALMAN RUSHDIE | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

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