Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room. Bruhl's study, and the actors move well on the dining hall stage. Lowell House's choice of Deathtrap was a good one. The local production surpasses the Hollywood version which had trouble trying to enlarge the scope of the action. The only slight drawback is that because dead people tend to lie on the floor, people sitting in the back sometimes have trouble seeing what they are doing...
...explain why he has turned away from the world and steeped himself in his own self-disgust. Houghton endows Brick with a taut passivity; his physical outlashes stun us with their uncontrollable violence, revealing his character's inability to accept his guilt about his feelings of love for his dead friend Skipper. Cox's Maggie exploits Brick's passivity and seeming impotence as she desperately tries to reawaken his love for her. Cox portrays a sensual, hyperactive, and manipulative Maggie. At times she stumbles over her lines, not from nervousness but rather from rushing them a bit too much...
...fame, in the opinion of Owner Bud Adams, had become excessive. When the prairie was in fashion, Phillips was both Will Rogers and the Marlboro man come to life. On every other billboard in Houston, he recommended pointy-toed boots made out of everything from ostriches to anteaters to dead dogs in the road...
...seminal and outrageous Demoiselles d'Avignon, the five women bathers with bodies of planes and angles. Gris' importance to modern art rests on about ten years of productivity. His work weakened into phlegmatic décor in the '20s, and by 1927, at 40, he was dead of uremia, the only major cubist not to live to a ripe...
...Hospital, a store in nearby Cambridge was robbed. Hours later, two Boston policemen spotted Bowden's parked car, which looked like the robbers' and had a similar license-plate number. The police waited, and when they saw Bowden get into the car, leaped out and shot him dead-within "three to five seconds," according to a reporter who was with the police. But the car was not the getaway car. Bowden had no criminal record. And at 5 ft. 4½ in. and 180 Ibs., he fitted the description of the tall, lean robbers in only...