Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author, ace baseball reporter Peter Gammons, are great writers. But the book's decent enough to read to your children. Imagine a five-year-old Dykstra fan hearing this piece of prose from his hero before bed: "We just said, 'Fuck it.' But it didn't work. Kevin Gross shoved the bats up our asses. We got shutout...
...shocking twist of fate, the front runner for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination ends a campaign that disintegrated almost overnight amid charges of adultery, hypocrisy and gross recklessness. While the stunning collapse of Gary Hart leaves the party without a clear- cut favorite in the '88 race for the White House, it poses a larger question for voters and the press: When is an inquiry into a politician' s private behavior legitimate, and when is it an unfair intrusion that says nothing about his qualifications for public office? -- One of the central figures in the underground sale...
...Hellman's script, Henry is a mulatto man, not a white woman, but Director Sarah Gross says She decided that the interracial sex that might have shocked Toys' original audiences 30 years ago would not shock modern audiences as much as lesbianism would...
...Gross could not have found a worse actress to play Henry than Garmire, who becomes part of the brick wall she leans against in each of her scenes. Even if her performance had had any life in it at all, and even if there had been any chemistry between her and Urso, it is still unlikely, in the wake of Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week, that lesbianism would shock a Harvard audience...
...Gross should have spent less time worrying about shock value and more time getting performances that are expressive enough to sustain the play's angst and tension for nearly three hours. In that length of time, none of the women can find any way to express nervousness other than clutching at their skirts, or any way to express happiness other than pirouetting...