Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...misdirected energy. As Vanya, Michael Gambon demonstrates anew why he has come to be regarded as perhaps Britain's foremost stage actor. Alternately raging and lapsing into bathos, bubbling with kindness as he worsens the lives of those he most means to help, he embodies the tragedy of a common man. Just as powerful are Imelda Staunton as Vanya's homely niece and Jonathan Pryce as the destructive doctor whom she loves...
This close family life is precious to Bennett, a Catholic whose parents divorced 40 years ago, when pious folk did not. His mother, who disliked the rich and called the family "us common folk," moved Bill, an older brother Bob and their Hungarian grandmother from Brooklyn to Washington. There, Bennett flourished at Gonzaga High, a Jesuit school. "The only guy in the honors class to be starting on the football team," he brags. But he chafed under the discipline of the fathers. "They regarded me as a smarty-pants, and they were absolutely right," he says...
...American Jazz is just not your style, then try the Latino pop festival at the Boston Common, where Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine will perform at 6 p.m. Friday night on the Common's outdoor stage. Tickets are $15.50 and $17.50 for reserved seating. Call 426-6666 or 787-8000 for more information...
...However, this year, Baylor may be the missing ingredient which the Sox, if they truly want to win a division title, should go after. Picking up a veteran player, one who is usually on the downside of his career but can still provide crucial leadership and experience, is a common practice among teams contending for the division lead in August and September, and the Sox should take just such a bold move at this point...
...with breeding the perfect fighting cock. A Manhattan drug dealer demands that his son stay off drugs -- or, if he must get high, that he do it in his father's company, at home. A Chicano woman struggles to bring to justice the Texas police chief who murdered her common-law husband...