Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most extraordinary examples of Harvard fiction have taken as their setting a drab indoor location: the dormitory bedroom. There have been dozens of novels about Harvard over the years: novels about freshmen, novels about seniors, novels about faculty, alumni, and townies, novels that start off at Harvard and never return, and novels that check into Harvard and never leave. And virtually every one of them--as if to observe an unwritten rule of the genre--pauses for at least one bounce on a Buildings and Grounds cot before reaching its conclusion Surely no other segment of the population (with...
...together." The two halves of this perspective show in the contrast between the lives of Edward and Lavinia Chamberlayne and that of Celia Coplestone. The play both begins and ends with one of the Chamberlayne's cocktail parties; they represent the decision to struggle on with the drab existence of whiskey and potato crisps. Celia is absent from the second party; unable to accept the constraints of such a life, she has left to seek peace in her own, absolute terms...
...wanted to see a Hollywood studio. The finest oldtime studio lot still operating is 20th Century-Fox, and the First Lady invited 500 over for dinner on sound stage No. 9, a vast space where the M*A*S*H series had been filmed. For this occasion, the olive drab was replaced by gay Hollywood eclectic: Ficus trees draped with fairy lights, fiber glass and plaster statues (including one of Bacchus) standing on yards of artificial turf, a 24-ft.-high fountain (from Hello Dolly), painted pastoral backdrops (used in From the Terrace) and Chinese paper lanterns...
...city, with its dirty streets and sleazy neighborhoods, did not lend itself to Porter's artistic conception of reality, as recalled in his few drab ad tentative attempts at scenes of life in Union Square made in the early forties. So Porter packed up his easel and relocated to the posh seashore resort town of Southampton, Long Island, spending the summers at a vacation home in Great Spruce Head. Maine, In these WASPy environs, he felt at home with everything from the foliage to the patio furniture...
Passion is also the heart's blood of the theater, and Williams is to the stage what a lion is to the jungle. At its best, his dialogue sings with a tone-poem eloquence far from the drab disjunctive patterns of everyday talk. He is an electrifying scenewright simply because his people are the sort who are born to make scenes, explosively and woundingly. In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Big Daddy jerks the crutch out from under his son Brick's arm and sends him sprawling in agony; a few minutes later Brick kicks the life...