Word: drill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mysteries of, say, detective stories. The text is often witty, if declamatory, but the real joys of the piece are acoustic and visual. Philip Glass has contributed his customary pulsating music, which has the narcotic effect of nitrous oxide coupled with the distant hum of a dentist's drill, yet is curiously pleasurable. Painter Red Grooms has designed the sets in a sort of Chagall-meets-Grandma Moses style that is, fittingly, both primitive and highly sophisticated. -- W.A.H...
...marine drill instructors...
...their aggressiveness, their flippancy, their maleness. Kings in their operating room, they must become serfs in the benign dictatorship of Nice. If this emotional brainwashing is redemption, then give us hell. These movies are hot-air balloons that deserve to be punctured -- preferably with a Black & Decker power drill...
...Desmond, a fourth-grade teacher who lives in Coram, N.Y., and her two children, husband, sister and brother-in-law all became Feldman's patients. "But in the last five or six years, he changed," Desmond recalls. "He did three shoddy root canals on me and even left a drill bit in one tooth." Now she has a lot more than a few botched operations to worry about. Last week state health authorities confirmed that they are trying to determine whether Feldman, 45, who died of pneumonia in June, had unwittingly infected any patients with the AIDS virus...
Summer television: the term alone is enough to conjure up the hot-weather blahs. Viewers know the drill all too well by now. Once the May sweeps are over, the network schedules become almost wall-to-wall reruns, occasionally interrupted by new episodes of series we thought we'd seen the last of and batches of rejected pilots gathered into umbrella series with disingenuous titles like Summer Playhouse...