Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these catalogues that the book isweakest; the chapters recounting the nomadicwanderings of Stuart's aunts and uncles--up anddown the East Coast, back and forth across theAtlantic--are entirely forgettable. Of marginalinterest in these lengthy dives into the past arethe glimpses of recent and not-so recentHarvardiana: contempt for the ghettos of NewHaven; romantic entanglements shot to hell over asquash game in Adams House; a complete mentalbreakdown in Lamont Library; a tour of a chintzyQuincy House bachelor pad belonging to her famedcousin; and of course standard turn-of-the-centuryRadcliffe gripes about having to settle forhusbands from the A.D. rather...
...conscious younger sister) are both finally given the well-deserved chance to shine after multiple chorus roles in previous A.R.T. productions. Chiorini gives Matt just the right amount of nervous intellectualism, endearing earnesty and Oedipal anxiety, and Fox-Long utilizes multiple effective tactics to move her character back and forth between pouting brat, self-conscious bookworm and self-sacrificial saint...
...Actually, we decided to have absolutely no plot in mind when we started. We just wrote a series of e-mails back and forth. And that's why a lot of the imagery ties in so well, because we would take a...thought from one person's poem...and expand upon it in our own way. We didn't think of [what character] would say it, or what the situation was, but we ended up with 30 pages and distilled it to about...
...prim well-dressed woman slowly swept the cane back and forth over the sidewalk, feeling for the curb. Obviously blind, she seemed unsure where the side walk ended and the street began. I approached, thinking I would offer her an arm. An elderly gentleman beat me to it, taking her arm and offering to take her across the street...
...number of students [in the economics course] raise their hands and put forth some of the very traditional views of the division of housework between men and women," Schor says. "The discussion started to spiral. It was a moment that reminded me how divided people still are about the issues that I teach...