Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they have a conscience?" Sylvia Crystal asked of Harvard's Corporation members, the University's highest governing board. "This was just plain deception...
MOVIES . . . FATHER'S DAY: Producer-director Ivan Reitman's film never develops into much more than a situation, notes TIME's Richard Schickel, a situation with the sole rationale of placing smooth, sardonic Billy Crystal, playing a successful lawyer named Jack Lawrence, in close, impatient proximity to Robin Williams, playing a failed playwright-poet named Dale Putley. "You know from the outset that their quest will quickly become a shared one, that the hip careerist and the careerless former hippy will bicker and ultimately bond. You can?t say the script by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel makes the most...
...Crystal boy" is Taiwanese slang for a gay male hustler, and it is in this community that the play is set. New Park, a place of tranquillity within the bustle of Taipei, has become a haven for young gay men who have no other place to go. Earning their living by hustling, leeching off of sugar daddies and working a series of short-lived day jobs, our three main characters form a sort of family under the crass leadership of their pimp, "Chief" Yang Jinhai (Andrew Li '77). The young men offer a study in contrasts: Mild-mannered...
...Adams House performance is a dramatic adaptation of Taiwanese author Pai Hsien-yung's 1984 novel Niezi, translated into English in 1990 as Crystal Boys and acclaimed by the producers as "the first modern Chinese gay novel." An original creation of Weinstein and Yee, the play very clearly comes from a longer prose work. Weinstein and Yee seem to have tried to strike a balance between dramatizing character development and bringing concrete action to the stage, but the latter often works better than the former. Blocks of monologue, rather than quick banter or fast-moving action, mark the development...
Ultimately, Crystal Boys succeeds on a number of levels but falters in others. It is paced to a much slower tempo than we are accustomed to in theater, and it's not clear that the literary and atmospheric benefits that derive from its slow pace is a worthwhile trade-off for the audience's attention. It also suffers from the fact that several key performers seem to have a hard time remaining engaged and focused throughout the play's duration. But the atmospheric effects are intriguing, the lyricism and symbolism of the text moving and the subject matter utterly fascinating...