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...record quarterly profits, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler are trumpeting a sweeping redesign of their smaller models. Now hitting showrooms % is a new type of compact, one that approximates the flowing, sculpted looks and sheer drivability usually found only in sports and luxury cars -- in short, a kind of Everyman's Porsche. Ford's Contour and Mercury Mystique, Chrysler's Cirrus and Dodge Stratus, and GM's retooled Chevrolet Cavalier and Pontiac Sunfire will feature from 120 to 170 h.p. (vs. 90 or under for many older compacts). Formerly upscale-only features like dual air bags, antilock brakes and automatic...
...Harry and Louise are Everyman," says Goddard, but no one like them has ever been seen in nature. Which is more fantastic? That a cappuccino-swilling duo would be caught dead spooning coffee from a jar, or that a two-career couple would spend their nights reading aloud from government documents? That anyone, much less the sophisticated lady with the arch British accent, would cart Taster's Choice to Paris, the City of Cafes, or that Harry's response to his wife's persistent nattering would be a chipper "Health-care reform again, huh?" If the pair of them...
...psychology produces a technique of gender slur that might be called Worst Case Synecdoche: All men are assumed to be as bad as the very worst among them. The rapist is Everyman...
Eric C. Engel, as director of the Nora Theatre Company's production, makes his strongest artistic decision in the scenic design. Paying close attention to the "everyman" theme, Engel places the audience in a three-quarter round seating area, The kitchen is in the center of the stage space, and the two bedrooms, for Willy and his wife Linda and for the boys, are tucked into corners to the audience. This places the audience inside Willy's home instead of a position outside from which they would detachedly 'watch' the events in the household. Here the audience is made...
...Everyman" story of a straight, white,white-collar, urban man doesn't appeal to a largeenough audience and a diverse enough sensibilityfor the '90s. In their program, the Nora assertsthat '...have sought out plays that jostle ourhearts and minds and have attempted to producethem in ways that reveal our common humanity." Butthe "common humanity" is not adequatedlyrepresented in the "Everyman" characterized byWilly Loman. At most, then, this well-doneproduction of a bland play can only remind us,true to its intention, that the theatrical spacesometimes is meant for bland characters and blandstories. Despite the well-intentioned attempts ofthe theatrical setting...