Word: hat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reducing what occurs on the stage to essentials, Beckett expanded the horizon of the possible. Oh--and he made it funny. A fancier of the music hall and silent-film comedians, Beckett turned his stranded souls into entertainers. They dance, do calisthenics, trade philosophies and insults, do a giddy hat-switching routine. They could be Neil Simon's Sunshine Boys: wizened vaudevillians replaying the same old effective shtick for 50 years. They know the absurdity of their plight, yet like every Beckett character, they persevere. They have to, or else there wouldn't be a play...
...into the cafe and congregated under the "Order Here" sign. How funny, I thought, for men in mud-encrusted boots and greasy overalls to want to order coffee in a place like this--wouldn't an IHOP or some well-Formicaed equivalent be more in keeping with the hard-hat genre...
...charged with drug possession, asleep in a stranger's house four blocks from his home. The homeowner, who discovered him when she put her children to bed, called the police, and Downey spent the night in a hospital-jail ward. He left the next day wearing slippers and a hat fashioned from a T shirt. By week's end, damage control was in full swing: Downey was in rehab and had a brand new publicist, and his lawyer issued a statement: "Mr. Downey has a problem. He's taking care...
...must have been disorienting for Ewan McGregor when the actor went from the junkie rigors of Trainspotting directly into the pastoral comedy of Jane Austen's Emma. "On the first day of shooting," he recalls, "I was riding horses and wearing a top hat, tails and gloves. And I realized that three weeks before, I'd been lying on a floor in Scotland with a skinned head and needles and syringes all around. I wondered what I was doing. Yet I enjoyed...
...orders a Coke and the other a diet Coke, one eats regular cream cheese, the other fat-free. What about when there is a lone soul in a large group who orders a CPK pizza with cheese, while the others asked for cheeseless. They might as well wear a hat on their head which says: "Just eat it!" It is increasingly uncomfortable for those who tend not to obsess over weight and fat to continue in their bliss, for surrounding them are growing masses who stare, assess and analyze every bit of food that enters the mouth. How unfortunate that...