Word: girls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprise, he falls rapidly in love with a thirtyish divorcee; they marry within a few weeks after they first meet. George, in many ways, represents Simon, who faced a similar situation when he abruptly married actress Marsha Mason some time after his first wife's death. The girl in the play, also an actress, is loving and supportive--which is exactly the problem. George cannot reconcile his love for his new wife with his memory of the deceased one. The fact that she understands his compulsive comparison of spouses only provokes his anger. "You leave me so much room...
Happily, Chapter Two is not quite as grim as its plot: characteristic Simon wit surfaces frequently. For instance, when George accuses Leo of fixing him up with a prostitute, his brother indignantly defends the girl, and then asks. "Why, did she charge you?" On the whole, however. Simon avoids his usually relentless parade of quips. Chapter Two possesses none of the slick quality that mars some of his earlier plays, which made his characters sound like professional stand-up comedians, not believable human beings. Instead, the humor approaches the way people actually talk or joke, and even helps to crystallize...
...emulate anyone when I play," Curry, captain of the women's basketball team, said yesterday. "Yeah, people have told me that I play like a man, and I take that as a compliment. Playing 'like a girl' connotes that you can't play...
Please don't hate me," she cried as she ran from the room. All she had done was accidentally spill a glass of water on the old, brown carpeting in the office. It was the spontaneous cry of a small, 14-year-old girl going through a crisis. She was a runaway...
...Harvardman (in drag) on her left, a Harvardman (in drag) on her right, and a ride through Cambridge in a yellow Rolls-Royce. What more could a girl want? Whether she wanted it or not, Actress Candice Bergen (Oliver's Story) got a special perfume named "Eau de Billy Joe," a gold bean pot and an award as Woman of the Year, bestowed by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Bergen, who was kicked out of the University of Pennsylvania, told the crowd: "Today, as I proudly cradle this pot, I can look back on several visits...