Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MORTALS OFTEN BECOME what they pretend to be, and pretty soon Traven's hero role acquires a more comfortable fit. When Antonio's friends demand that he play the piano, an instrument he hasn't mastered, Robert plays like a Carnegie Hall veteran. And when Antonio's son gets in trouble with the mob, it's Robert who has to take on the underworld single-handed. Pretty soon even his cold, business-like secretary is getting all gushy about Robert...
...different issue, they would have enough groups to form a majority. A large part of the Republican success can be attributed to the unified vision they presented to the American public, incorporating all issues. Americans demonstrated an amazing tolerance for those elements of the vision which did not fit in with their...
...funny, too--as funny as the best of them. But his portrayal of a bisexual who wants a wife and children, plus a dash of stability and some unburned Rice-a-Roni is too convincing, too close to touching, to quite fit into this farce of modern existence...
...Therapy is just a not always lighthearted attack on the modern self indulgences of uncertain sexuality, crazier-than-thou psychoanalysts and Perrier water. Even if they are old hat, the problems of loneliness and confusion with which the play deals are real to most and too realistically explored to fit in with the farce of this...
Prudence's "No, you're not rejecting me, buddy. I'm rejecting you," is as serious as rejection can get. Either less fun or less seriousness would make this play fit better into the audience's categorical perceptions about comedy and chaos. Then again, the fault may be intentional: perhaps the border between the two is what Durang meant to explore...