Word: dario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also went to 24 others, including a Georgia country doctor, Curtis Names Sr., 64, and the founder of the World Institute on Disability, Edward Roberts, 45, who is a quadriplegic. The grants are for any use the recipient wishes. Irwin, who will make his Broadway debut next month in Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist, plans to use part of the cash to quit teaching and write. "A few friends of mine asked if it would blunt my competitive edge as an actor," says the rubbery-faced performer. "I guess anything-too lean...
ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST by Dario...
...nearly two decades, Dario Fo has been one of Italy's, and Europe's, best-known satirists and actors. Americans have heard little of him, for good reason. Fo and his wife, the actress Franca Rame, were about to embark on an American tour in 1980, when the U.S. State Department banged the door shut. State invoked the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act in order to protect the country from Fo's leftist opinions...
...private sector. The rightist guard leadership had been grumbling especially loudly in recent weeks that changes in the government were long overdue, even though Royo's term in office was not scheduled to expire until 1984. In an interview three weeks ago, National Guard Commander Rubén Dario Paredes mused: "Twenty-four more months, it's a bit long." When Royo's decision to quit the presidency became known, there were few doubts that the National Guard had forced him to resign and that the country Torrijos had kept balanced between the extremes would...
...cent chance of survival and happiness, "but Lord, that 50 per cent chance is the best goddamned chance he's ever gonna get." But despite a superbly dark, sick ending the play is too predictably structured, the target too easy, and, compared with a truly political vaudeville like Dario Fo's Accidental Death of An Anarchist, it doesn't resonate much...