Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Nussbaum, Steinberg, 47, assumed such total control of her life that she could not eat or leave their Greenwich Village apartment without his permission. One night last November, she said, he ordered her and Lisa to eat hot pepper, forcing them to drink glass after glass of tap water. A bit later, while Nussbaum was in the bathroom, Steinberg came in bearing in his arms the bruised and unconscious girl. When Nussbaum asked what had happened, she testified, Steinberg replied, "What's the difference what happened? This is your child. Hasn't this gone far enough?" He then...
While the Soviet schedulers drew up the standard list of New York City tourist attractions -- the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the World Trade Center, Broadway -- Gorbachev also accepted an earlier invitation: to visit the brass- and-glass high-rise office-and-apartment complex and atrial shopping mecca on Fifth Avenue, and enjoy a private dinner with megabuilder Donald Trump and his wife Ivana. Does private mean just the Trumps and the Gorbachevs? Trump, who was called directly by a Soviet official, says, "It seems that...
...theater has brought many notable actors, directors and musicians to Boston for world premieres of their productions, including minimalist composer Philip Glass, Talking Heads singer David Byrne and avant garde director Robert Wilson...
What is the most influential drama in American literary history? As plausible a candidate as any is The Glass Menagerie. Since Tennessee Williams brought his family confessional to Broadway in 1945, virtually every U.S. dramatist of substance has revealed himself in a guilt-ridden memory play, from Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Eugene O'Neill's long-concealed Long Day's Journey into Night to Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky and Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. Into those ranks comes Michael Weller. Heretofore best known for Moonchildren and the screenplay of Hair, both valedictories...
...dinner of warm milk (hers liberally laced from a pocketbook flask) in an apartment without electricity, to the climactic reunion, when she arrives unkempt in a bedraggled housecoat and proceeds to exude glamour and sophistication from every pore, she makes life an adventure. Unlike the mother in The Glass Menagerie, whose tale of having 17 gentlemen callers seems a sad fib, Elise is convincing when she says, "I used to make quite the impression when I entered a room. I stood perfectly still, and everything moved in my direction...