Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friendship was cemented in 1979, when President Carter asked Baryshnikov to put on a performance at the White House. A prestigious offer, but it meant working on a tiny stage with a ceiling so low that Misha-size leaps were impossible. Nor did the White House provide a stage crew. "I felt sorry for him -- he had no one," says Robbins. "So I became a kind of stage manager and kept my eye on everything -- sound, costumes and all." He also threw in a new short ballet, set to Chopin...
...task is to extend to hand of friendship to the two communities in Northern Ireland," she said...
...audiences, the payoff varies. When a performer's piece is largely autobiographical, like Shear's or Redgrave's (which ran eight months on Broadway and is touring the country), the theatergoer can get the illusion of making an instant friendship. When the show is a bravura display of physical and vocal transformation from one character to another, like Glaser's deft Family Secrets or Spring's intensely acted if mawkishly overwritten The Mayor of Boys Town, the pleasure is seeing the conjurer's trick. When the writing is ambitiously literary, as in Taylor's eloquent if not galvanically performed pseudo...
...despite much rancid history under that heading) as they care about character as it is expressed in behavior. The American challenge now is not to pay homage to every cultural variation and appease every ethnic sensitivity, but rather to encourage universally accepted ideals of behavior: self-discipline, compassion, responsibility, friendship, work, courage, perseverance, honesty, loyalty and faith...
These two scenarios are unfortunately very common now, especially in the past couple of days as the pressure to finalize roommates and block mates kicks in. But these scenarios could have been avoided--or at least Curly's friendship with Mo could have been saved...