Word: home
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makes Ruiz's production so successful is that for all its high-speed antics, it keeps its feet planted firmly on the ground. The sets of Glenn Reisch '99 manage to keep Ayckbourn's experiments with time and place under control. Reisch essentially designs two sets, one for each home. Remarkably, they are different enough so that the audience never loses its bearings as the action shifts from home to home and back again. At the same time they are similar enough so that the constant crossing of characters from one world to the next is acceptable...
...that matters is that I get my job done when it needs to be. If I don't have anything to do some afternoon, my boss would get mad at me if I didn't go home," Burns adds...
...Often, if I don't have a meeting scheduled, I'll go to the gym at three or four in the afternoon and just stay a little later...Some people with families take their work home to spend more time with their kids," he says...
...great deal of money was required to buy the materials, hire a designer and planters, and have either gardeners or animals shave it down to its optimum length. When the upper echelons of colonial society returned from their European travels with news of the latest in fashion, food, and home decor, they brought the lawn with them--it came from Old to New England with all its attendant symbolism...
...literally couldn't exist without the lawn (and the fat balding man standing around in his boxers, watering it with a flaccid garden hose, but more on that later) --suburbs were in fact designed around lawns. Jenkins describes the flight to suburbia and the ascendancy of the single-family home with front yard as "the most characteristic single feature of European settlement in North America...