Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quiet suburb of Dublin, this psychodrama unfolds over the card table of Billy Beavis (Jonathan Hammel), who has been home for less than a day from a twelve-month stint at an insane asylum. To celebrate his return he has brought together what remains of his family and friends to participate in an old ritual of friendship--"a poker session." Over the course of the play this friendly game gradually reveals itself to be a carefully orchestrated trial of vengeance. Along with his friend Teddy (C. Michael Rodriguez), a fellow outpatient from the asylum, Billy presides over a tense...
...addition to the airline's available cash, ample financing has been provided by the Kuwait Investment Office in London, supplemented by a loan from the Kuwaiti government-in-exile. Other carriers have helped too. In Dublin, Aer Lingus has arranged for Kuwait Airways to patch into its computerized worldwide reservation system. Another problem arose when Iraqi troops confiscated large supplies of Kuwait Airways tickets. The carrier will now use tickets with a new design. The International Air Transport Association is making sure that only tickets issued by Kuwait Airways are honored...
...trailing clouds of glory. On Oct. 16 A.S. Byatt's Possession won the Booker Prize, Britain's most ballyhooed and prestigious literary award, for the year's best novel, beating out works by such well-known nominees as Brian Moore, Beryl Bainbridge and Mordecai Richler. Three days later, in Dublin, Byatt picked up the Irish Times/Aer Lingus international fiction prize. The take from both awards added up to about...
...village life portrayed in J.M. Synge's masterpiece about ignorant peasants and their perverse notions of heroism, all of it a sly satire on the yearning of oppressed colonies to break free. The finest Irish drama of the 20th century, it is discerningly performed by the Abbey Theater of Dublin, at Washington's Kennedy Center through Oct. 21, then in St. Louis, Tucson and Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Palm Beach, Newport and the Hamptons, some blue collar is beginning to poke through the white. Many of the sport's ranked players trained on public courts; most of them work for a living and pay their own way to competitions around the world. At the vineyards' tournament, Dublin's Williams, a musician and graphics designer, was defeated by Debbie Cornelius, a secretary from England who had played a dairy farmer and an engineer. Players in Central Park included a bar owner, a steam fitter, a hairdresser, the maitre d' at New York City's Rainbow Room and Wall Street...