Word: hates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This poignant material is told obliquely and often with a fey nuttiness. The audience begins to understand that it has stepped outside the literal world when the most neurotically self-absorbed of the women confides to one of her companions that the waiter hates her, and a few moments later, he does indeed turn and say, deadpan, "I hate you." At South Coast Repertory's handsome stage, the show had a visual sleekness that it somewhat lacks in the more rudimentary facilities of the New York City producer, Playwrights Horizons. But the elegance of the storytelling survives and reflects more...
...hate to admit it, but Gorbachev is giving the arms-control talks fresh and helpful impulses. He is putting forth concessions that no other Soviet leader has ever made. If the U.S. does not respond soon, a historical chance will be missed. We have no option: we have to accept Gorbachev's offers...
...Zandt had helped produce three of Springsteen's hottest-selling albums. Tunes he wrote for the Jukes and Gary "U.S." Bonds, like Daddy's Come Home, showed high-end gifts for songwriting, even though he insists, "I hate all ballads, including my own." Still, it was impossible to flourish on his own and hang in with the gang. "I felt," he says, "a more urgent necessity pulling me. Like, 'Hey, it's time to find out if you got something else to contribute here on this planet.' " Men Without Women, his first Little Steven album, released...
...Whitney Biennial, the show critics (and others) love to hate, is here again. Its significance as an event lies in the fact that it is still the only large survey of current American art regularly held by a U.S. museum, namely the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Hence, given the absurdly overcrowded art world of the late '80s, with thousands of artists, dealers and collectors jostling for visibility (the Whitney's curators guess at an American artist population of more than 200,000, but this figure may be low), the show excites much the same passions...
...hate, or at lest distaste, for the more comfortable things in life can never hurt while you are running an 11-days race in the freezing cold. "You can't think that you could be in a nice, warm bathtub," Butcher advises...