Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curtain is going up for the last time in Dillon Field House. And for this, the last performance, the spotlight returns, the gate receipts increase and critics flock to praise the show they damned for so long...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf on him. In 1965, two years after the couple had broken up, McNally saw his own first full-length play, And Things That Go Bump in the Night, go kerflop on Broadway. He still smarts from the experience. On opening night, just before curtain time, he spotted playwright Jean Kerr and her critic husband Walter. "She said, 'Well, let's go see what his boyfriend has written.' The critics weren't reviewing a play by a new American playwright; they were seeing what Albee's boyfriend had written. That was pretty devastating to me, frankly...
...year the tour visits more than 20 cities. Today Rage Against the Machine, a thrash metal band, performs first. Many of the 25,000 concertgoers surge to the front, churning up a cloud of dust that will hang in front of the stage all day like a dirty shower curtain. The lead singer is wailing "F you, I won't do what you tell me," again and again and later attacks the price of Lollapalooza souvenirs. "We like this band because they're pissed off," says 18-year-old Jeremy Jones, a Mormon in a T shirt decorated with multicolored...
When the Iron Curtain disintegrated, few would have guessed that in less than five years it would lead to a massive exodus of poverty-stricken East European women, desperate to sell themselves for what rarely turns out to be the good life. Police say a quarter of Germany's 200,000 prostitutes are now from the former East bloc. Even in the puritanical Middle East, charter flights full of Russian women disembark weekly at Dubai's airport, ply their trade on 14-day visas and head home, loaded with color television sets. At the Gallery, a Brussels nightclub, a naked...
Most embarrassing moment: Freshman year, on the very first night, my roommate locked himself out of our room in Canaday and slept in the bathroom using a shower curtain as a blanket. He was running around in his underwear outside trying to get us to open the door but I had earplugs in and my other roommate thought he was dreaming...