Word: caging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was a time in the not so distant past when a play dealing directly with homosexuality was box office poison. Today, Torch Song Trilogy continues in its third year on Broadway, while La Cage aux Folles (for which Fierstein wrote the book) plays to standing room audiences down the street. And so what is Fierstein trying to say in these works? It is not a political statement about homosexuality, nor it is an apology. The idea he expresses so eloquently is one of self-respect, of realizing one's worth and striving for what one desires and deserves...
After the final buzzer sounded, the members of the Harvard women's basketball team started in amazement at the Briggs Cage scoreboard...
...life. Given to bouts of depression and heavy drinking, she had become increasingly reclusive and angry at the world. She told interviewers that she regarded the U.S. and the Soviet Union as equal menaces to world peace. In the U.S., she said, she felt she had moved "from one cage to another." She complained that she had not met the "kind of intellectual, highly educated people" who had been her friends in Moscow...
Students missed a chance to learn a few tricks from Allan Carr, the glamorous producer of "Grease" and "La Cage aux Folles," when he didn't show up at several Harvard receptions yesterday because he was bed-ridden with the flu at the Copley Plaza in Boston...
...twit the critics who have insisted on pigeonholing her: first as a feminist writer, later as a purveyor of visionary science fiction. "I wanted to be reviewed on merit, as a new writer, without the benefit of a 'name,' " she asserts, "to get free of that cage of associations and labels that every established writer has to learn to live inside...