Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that climax be? Will Yoda retreat to Dagobah, will Ben Kenobi pick up Darth Vader's old lightsaber, so he can someday give it to Luke? Such cloyingly nostalgiac satisfactions pale compared to Luke's arcanely scored hatred for Vader and to Han's martyr-ship in the carbonite chamber! The satisfactions of a prequel turn the the Star Wars universe into an introvert, a narcissus...
...corporate offices around town, though, Goodman's critics are worried that his client list--which once included Meyer Lansky and is riddled with the names of other alleged mobsters--could spell trouble. Chamber of Commerce president Pat Shalmy says that if Goodman is elected, "the image we've been trying to improve over the years might be set back." Goodman responds by quoting his mother: "My son's clients don't hurt anybody. They just kill each other...
...Schnitzler's La Ronde to a trivial actors' exercise for two. Hare then went one better (or one lesser) by appearing onstage alone, recounting his trip to the Middle East and calling it a play, Via Dolorosa. Another well-received import from Britain, The Weir, is a 90-minute chamber piece in which the denizens of a bar in Ireland trade ghost stories. This year's Pulitzer Prize for drama went to Wit, an affecting play about a woman dying of cancer, but essentially an expanded monologue...
Cambridge residents in support of the ordinance spilled into the hallway outside Sullivan Chamber last night. Observers included representatives from the local Living Wage Campaign and the city chapter of the Carpenters' Union...
...Cambridge residents in support of the ordinance spilled into thehallway outside Sullivan Chamber last night. Observers included representatives from the local Living Wage Campaign and the city chapter of the Carpenters' Union...