Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...director, Heather Cross deftly exploits the comedic as well as the tragic aspects of Chekhov's script. Fyodor Ilich Kulygin (Glenn Kessler) begins each of his scenes by asking for the whereabouts of his wife, Masha (Patricia Goldman). This habit, funny at first, becomes tragic as Kessler is revealed to be a man hopelessly trying to deny the grim reality of his loveless marriage. The alienation of the characters in The Three Sisters becomes so forceful at the production's conclusion precisely because it appears so harmlessly amusing in the play's opening scenes...
...soon, you find that you're doing a lot more of it and getting a lot less satisfaction. Your friends, teachers and parents begin to notice the classic symptoms of abuse: apathy about school, a sudden drop in grades, hanging out with a different crowd, the paraphernalia of your habit left lying about your room...
...hand of a glamorous starlet seemed to sum up sophistication. Before she died of lung cancer in 1984, some 15,000 packs later, Cipollone and her husband filed suit against three cigarette manufacturers, claiming that intense advertising and industry health claims had drawn her into a deadly | nicotine habit. Last week the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. However the high court rules, the result will deeply affect the enormous tobacco industry...
...agony of defeat and the shame of abandonment -- and that ends in thwarted love and suicide -- seemed a risky business. Suppressing an impulse to premiere the show directly on Broadway, something he had never done, Mackintosh tried Miss Saigon in the West End, where theatergoing is a steadier habit and Vietnam guilt is not a local concern. He then relied on word of mouth among U.S. tourists to build up a buzz. By now it is a crescendo, enough to let him catapult Broadway's top single-show price to $100, a level previously limited to scalpers, for each...
Wilder at least has the benefit of incumbency. Only 15 months ago, he made history by becoming the nation's first black elected Governor. But residual racism will be a problem for him, as will his lack of foreign policy experience, disdain for political organizing and habit of picking quarrels with powerful Democrats just to keep in fighting trim. Some insiders believe that Wilder's real aim is to become the vice-presidential nominee...