Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the agonies will be related to racial issues, but that is not the purported focus of Generations. Rather, insists executive producer Sally Sussman, who created the series and supervises the scripts, "these are going to be stories of character and emotion. We didn't do this to exploit...
Clay Center, like thousands of other small communities from Maine to New Mexico, is struggling to avoid becoming a ghost town. The population of rural America is being sapped by an epic postwar migration to cities and suburbs, a trend that has accelerated in the past decade. Each year since...
The Chinese-American culture is only beginning to throw off such literary sparks, and Amy Tan's bright, sharp-flavored first novel belongs on a short shelf dominated by Maxine Hong Kingston's remarkable works of a decade or so ago, The Woman Warrior and China Men. Tan's book...
.Theater people. And I don't mean actors, directors or producers. They're fine. I mean theater people, people who can't see beyond the pages of Sam Shepard or Pirandello and act as if a single production can change the world and tend to get bogged down in the...
As a portrait of a generation, Wendy Wasserstein's new play is more documentary than drama, evoking fictionally all the right times and places but rarely attaining much thorny particularity about the people who inhabit them. The plot, such as it is, often seems like an unconscious cartoon of feminist...