Word: commons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Time: Scenes from a Service Economy, one of two offerings in the American Repertory Theater's spring festival currently running at the Hasty Pudding Theater, has a lot in common with television melodrama. As in TV, the dialogue is snappy, the plot fast-paced and the sex scenes never quite consummated. In fact, for TV junkies, Big Time has only one drawback--it actually costs money...
...appropriate way to comment on it. At least that would explain the odd decision to include an excerpt from the Newsweek article christening yuppies in the program. Just in case it wasn't already in the zeitgeist of everyone in the theater, the article assured the existence of a common culturally stereotyped language. Yet it doesn't seem that even Reddin actually believes that yuppies are without any individual quirks or desires. The actors, who are stiff and who often seem to be unsure of themselves, fail in the rare opportunities the script gives them to show real emotion...
Academy award-winning actress Linda Hunt last night told an audience of 200 students and local actors in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room that to understand the difference between film and theater acting "you have to go before the firing squad and learn about it on your feet...
...common thread binds these three images. Sports, as many women have observed, is the secret language of men. It binds--and bonds--men together in ways that most women don't understand. Certainly there are some women who read The Sporting News, and some men who can't live without a copy of Women's Wear Daily. But for the most part sports plays a uniquely male role in our society; it teaches men competition and camaraderie, team play and individual excellence...
...sports pages--particularly The Globe's--that unite men across generational boundaries. The little boy sprawled on the floor Sunday morning and the business executive share a common passion--the arcania of baseball, the trivia of football, the violence of hockey...