Word: fathers
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...works. The physical comedy of Chekov's piece seems almost inconsiderate after the grueling emotional turmoil of Williams' piece. Director Aidan Parkinson takes a burlesque approach to Chekov's story of a marriage proposal interrupted by disputes over trivial family rivalries. Dorothy Brodesser returns in drag as the scowling father of Natalia, the woman whom Chekov's feeble hero Lomov wants to wed, and Barlow Anderson as Lomov reaches feats of physical hypochondria that defy description. Parkinson's production comes dangerously close to the line between farce and sheer Vaudeville at times. It evokes laughter from the audience...
Kozol, who was also a father, grandfather and WWII veteran was buried Wednesday in Baker Street Cemetery in West Roxbury...
...Brustein: My first job, aside from working for father in the shipping room of a wool yarn business, was playing clarinet and tenor sax with a swing band at a high school junior prom...
...Trudeau has also captured Bill Clinton as a waffle dripping with maple syrup, combining in one small image both the president's indecisiveness and his passion for food, and portrayed Vice President Al Gore '69 as a young child sitting on the lap of his Senator father, waiting to be spoon-fed the presidency. This year, though, the images will be harder to make new. The current presidential race is shaping up as the embodiment of the old proverb: history the first time is tragedy but when repeated is farce...
...know that the founding fathers didn't envision a caste of professional politicians, but the current mixture of off-the-wall potential candidates like Warren Beatty (shades of Ronald Reagan) and light-weight legacies like George W. Bush (we've already enjoyed more than 12 years of insightful depictions of his father in the strip) give us a sense of dj vu and will be a real test of Trudeau's innovative genius...