Word: geeson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Common Pursuit depicts five mismatched undergraduates at Cambridge (the British playwright's alma mater) who become intimates while putting out a literary magazine. Most of the story is their post-Cambridge life: two remain in academe, two share a publishing house and a paramour (Judy Geeson), and the most buffoonish (Nathan Lane) achieves the biggest success as a celebrity journalist. Theirs is not a "group" of friends but a crisscross of relationships, some close, some almost hostile despite a depth of mutual insight. They judge each other not by material attainments but by how closely each has clung...