Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Plays with political agendas have largely passed out of fashion. Revivals of work by such impassioned advocates as Ibsen and Arthur Miller are often met with weary resistance, and few contemporary writers seek to emulate their manifestos. On one subject, however, the theater is ablaze with social concern: the deadly viral disease known as AIDS, which as of last week had claimed 4,906 lives and is worsening. At least seven productions around the country have dealt with its impact, particularly on the major risk group, male homosexuals. Actors from coast to coast have performed Jeff Hagedorn's monologue...
...panic and self-hatred that AIDS has unleashed. He dishes up highly imaginative invective, not least toward a character based upon himself. And he creates a complex, interesting romance between his surrogate, played by Brad Davis (who starred in the film Midnight Express), and a New York Times fashion reporter, portrayed with appealing directness and believability by D.W. Moffett. The reporter, who contracts AIDS, speaks the focal line: "There is not a good word to be said for anybody's behavior in this whole mess...
...ordinators stand ready. "Take it off, it's too white," says Galanos, snatching a rope of beads from the neck of a black-and-white coat. The models line up for the opening parade. Makeup and style have reduced them to pure line and angle. They look like fashion sketches of, say, 1936. They swagger out to the runway. Applause. "They do like color in Texas," says a returning brunet, already changing out of an orange-and-black suit...
...members of the University have the right to press for action on matters of concern by an appropriate means. The University must affirm, assure, and protect the rights of its members to organize and join political associations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate and picket in orderly fashion, advocate, and publicize opinion by print, sign, and voice...
Another pet phrase, voiced by the rather dazed huntsmen and villagers of the dream scenes is, "They say seeing is believing..." This is usually muttered after the hacked-off forepaw or noggin of a wolf develops hominoid traits in instant coffee fashion...