Word: conrade
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hallucinatory flashback to middle school. The "players," a group of kids whose dress and language evoke a sort of archetypal, semi-mythical 1980s Experience, are unwillingly pressed into service as actors by a terrifying bag lady (Gower, the play's narrator, here played with an alarming intensity by Jessamyn Conrad '00). Since they retain their eighth-grade personalities, the romancing and sexual innuendo of the first half of the play is spiced up with impromptu fist fights, Fritos breaks and such literary and urbane interpolations as "Oh, shit," "Get him, dude!" and "You the man"--a brand of humor whose...
Elizabeth Taylor 18 Conrad ("Nicky") eight months 6 Hilton Jr. heir...
...guests include Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel R. West '74, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government William J. Wilson, Conrad Muhammed of the Nation of Islam, Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom, Republican Bob Woodson and several Harvard students...
...wonderfully biting satire of the prevailing attitude which links show business to American politics. Two weeks before he is up for re-election, the president is accused of making advances on a Girl Scout; mysterious political consultant Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro) is called to resolve the catastrophe. Everyone gets brutally skewered in this film: politicians, filmmakers, actors, reporters and the credulous masses. The load eventually proves to be too much for the film to carry, but the film has to be admired for its sheer effort. Wag the Dog remains vastly entertaining even during its most tenuous moments. --Soman...
...people are watching the NFL. The networks use, and sometimes even call, time-outs to insert commercials at every conceivable chance. They disrupt the flow of the game by presenting more advertising than action. The new agreement may last until 2005, but by then, will anyone be watching? R. CONRAD STEIN Chicago...