Word: faint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Watching Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is an emotionally wrenching experience not meant for the faint of heart--or faint of seat, as the play clocks in at three and a half hours. But the members of Who's Afraid need not worry about that big bad wolf because their show is standing on very solid ground...
...find any meaning, which seems to be part of the point. Despite Prascak's claim that the principle behind his direction is "what the fuck," the play is far from random, but it avoids such conventions as plot and character development. This is confrontational theater, not for the faint of heart or the closed-minded. Though the show is little more than an hour long, few theatergoers would be willing to withstand more than a few minutes of it, even under alcoholic sedation...
...Gregg adds, "A school can't live without the alumni." Old grads are after him, wanting to lend a hand. "Support us, come to our games," he shoots back. But on this balmy Parents' Weekend, only a few moms and dads are camped in the cracked concrete stands. Their faint applause is barely audible above the passing traffic...
Jackson, for his part, has never shown much enthusiasm as a Dukakis cheerleader. Many of his meandering 16-page speeches do not mention Dukakis until page 12. When Jackson does get around to the candidate, he sometimes damns him with faint praise. Dukakis may not be inspirational, Jackson has said, but "we the people can provide the passion. He can provide the priorities...
...pummeling Quayle from both left and right. At first the Bush campaign expressed guarded satisfaction. Quayle was bloodied but unbeaten. Bush's reaction was predictably hyperbolic: Quayle "knocked it right out of the park." But campaign chief Jim Baker, never a Quayle fan, seemed to be damning Dan with faint praise: "When you think about what might have happened, we have to be pretty happy...