Word: everyday
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play's prickly virtues are recaptured in a spare staging by Director Arvin Brown at New Haven, Conn.'s, Long Wharf Theater. Hal Holbrook stars in the role Wilder sometimes enacted himself, as the Stage Manager or narrator of this funny valentine to the squandered joys of everyday life. Scoffing, moments after he enters, at those who feel a need for scenery, Holbrook commands the lowering of a couple of trellises halfheartedly entwined with flowers; an instant later, they are hauled back up out of sight. From then on, the actors proceed without props or sets save for a couple...
Last week the Los Angeles city council, responding to complaints from the community, banned overnight sleeping on Venice beach, effective next year. Normally liberal Venice, says City Council Aide Rick Ruiz, has become "caught between its conscience and the impact the homeless have on everyday lives." A more cynical view comes from one of the town's few conservative Republicans, who says, "The liberals got rich...
...sharply brought into focus yesterday when Moscow security police beat and arrested CNN's Moscow bureau chief for "assaulting a Soviet citizen." The Kremlin must be complimented on its novel way of describing a journalist watching a refusnik protest. For most Russians, such incidents are a part of everyday life...
...crumbling, or collapse), Giampaolo Pansa, deputy editor of the daily La Repubblica, writes that Italy is coming apart at the seams, not because of the Red Brigades, Middle East terrorists or civil war, as was once feared, but because of its own political . follies and foibles. Describing the everyday struggle of Italians to get driver's licenses, business permits, papers to prove car or home ownership, tax reimbursements and the like, he says, "We're on the terrain of bureaucratic sadism...
...into an undertow of evil and finds, to her surprise, that she enjoys living out the part of herself she's always repressed. Lindsay Crouse is Dr. Margaret Ford, a committed workaholic who is unable to enjoy the success of her first book, entitled Driven: Obsession and Compulsion in Everyday Life. She is as obsessive and lost as the people she treats. Sucking ferociously on cigarette after cigarette, she is the picture of neurosis...