Word: congdon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among the freshest, funniest and most poignant works seen on any U.S. stage this season. Though the writers included Broadway stalwart Arthur Kopit, novelist Harry Crews and columnist William F. Buckley Jr., the best script, aptly for Louisville's tradition of discovery, came from regional-theater veteran Constance Congdon, whose works have never been produced in New York City...
...Congdon's Tales of the Lost Formicans takes a weepy topic that might easily have been a TV movie of the week and inverts it into a witty, goofy, almost anthropological look at humankind as viewed by aliens from outer space. The patriarch of a suburban blue-collar family is dying of Alzheimer's disease, while his daughter acts out anger over her divorce through petty crimes of feminist rage and his grandson runs away and ends up sleeping in shopping malls. The extraterrestrials are staging a sort of slide show to explain how human art, society and psychology work...
...images but a sample of the real thing. Turn the page, break open the "scent strip" and get a full blast of Giorgio of Beverly Hills; or Calvin Klein's Obsession; Fendi, the passion of Rome; or Faberge's McGregor. "The fragrance business is so highly competitive," says Melisande Congdon-Doyle, director of cosmetic and fragrance marketing at Harper's Bazaar, "that the only way to get the scent before the noses of people is to go to them directly." For a person who receives several such magazines in the home or office simultaneously, the effect can be overpowering. "What...
Stamaty is the creator of "Washingtoon," a cartoon featured in each issue of The Village Voice, and reprinted weekly in The Washington Post. Congdon & Weed has published the serialized strip in a book, giving readers a prolonged look at Stamaty's notable knack for capturing in detail the mood and idiosyncrasies of our nation's capital during Reagan's tenure. As a chronicle of the reign of the New Right, the book is as depressing as it is funny...
...cheering as rolling into bed of an evening. For a slightly older pair (Catherine Cox and Martin Vidnovic), it is an anguish; their scientifically orchestrated struggle to conceive is a humiliation to him and a vast inconvenience to her romantic impulses. For the oldest twosome (Beth Fowler and James Congdon), who already have three grown children, it is a bestartlement; they had no idea that weekend at the Plaza would put such a stimulating glow into their sunset years. It is the virtue of Sybille Pearson's book that the principals never become archetypes, thanks to her gift...