Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...title makes the setting self-evident. The plot is simple: A group of six actors play a cornicopea of faces and situations interspersed by precisely timed entrances and exits until they all finally make it to the table at the same time, light the candles and watch the lights dim as the play ends...
...eerie familiarity to the Supreme Court Justices as depicted in giant caricature masks (one is black and another female, emphatically not reality in 1931), and an oblique gay inflection has been wrung out of one bit of dialogue. But most of the performers make no headline reference -- the dim Vice President is plump and scruffy, not boyishly cute -- and the big production numbers feel almost antique...
...window, from inside a room. One first sees it in 1896, in a small, unremarkable study of an open door giving onto the sea in Brittany. It reappears, in a way that promises its eventual form, in a small picture from 1901-02, Studio Under the Eaves -- a brown, dim room with a blaze of sacramental light at the end, a glimpse of apricot wall and flowering tree. From then on it will appear whenever he is at full pitch: in The Open Window, 1905, as he is creating the speckled, radically colored world of Fauvism at Collioure...
...come by in the coming years, which will be spent curing these large and unwelcome burdens America is suddenly forced to bear. Slow growth is the curse of the 1990s. But if it is managed correctly, there is no reason to believe American prospects in the long run are dim. They are not. What is required is a collective political will that has been conspicuously absent from the American economic landscape for too long...
...rate, hard to go one up on Whoopi. Actor colleagues in a San Francisco rep company didn't succeed in the early '80s, when they nicknamed her for a dim-witted novelty-store joke. "I was very flatulent," she explains with an angelic smile. "So for a while it was 'Whoopi Cushion.' Then, for a touch of class, 'Whoopi Couchant.' So I thought, Why not? I'll be Whoopi. But Whoopi Johnson just doesn't cut it." (You figure that one out; her name then was Caryn Johnson.) So she rummaged among her family names and came up with some...