Word: forthings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medley -- composed of show tunes and popular chestnuts -- is divided so that the three men toss the melody back and forth, each singing part of every song. There is some mild one-upmanship: Domingo sustains a high note, it seems, for several bars; Pavarotti's eloquent eyebrows start working overtime. But the songs meld seamlessly, and that is the result of cooperative effort...
...forever unable to convincingly play anyone except the cheerful wife and mother who left no spots on the glasses or her children's psyches. By the time Reed tried to inhabit the skin of Miss Ellie in Dallas, it was impossible to believe that she could have brought forth a lout like J.R. She had become a victim of typecasting...
...back to the house. The crisis team had two problems. They were worried for Cowling's safety, since no one was sure about O.J.'s state of mind, and they wanted to coax him out of the car and into custody. Cowling shuttled back and forth to the doorway, then the car, calming O.J., talking anxiously to the cops. "He was really pumped up; he was going -- you could see that," said SWAT team commander Mike Albanese. "Cowling wouldn't come in the house because he figured we'd grab...
...fact that the mood of businessmen and investors is shifting, however delicately. The most unfathomable aspect of any upturn involves psychology: the more reasons people find to be hopeful about the economy, the more likely they are to act upon them. Economic indicators will flutter back and forth, but for the first time in years, the signs and statistics are drawing a sizable contingent of optimists...
...from a man whose nearly 50 other plays involve such tricks as a robot spouse used in a child-custody battle; audience choices that provide a script with 16 endings; and a three-story house seen on one level (with actors tiptoeing up and down -- that is, back and forth -- along imaginary stairs). "Games are fun," Ayckbourn says, his doughy face suddenly aquiver with adolescent glee. "I hope someday to write a play set in an airport, with actual moving sidewalks and escalators and revolving baggage carousels. I just don't have an idea for what happens there...