Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such a dismal setting, it is easy to overlook someone like Mickey Leland, who was not molesting children or lining his pockets or taking funds from the public coffers for pork-barrel projects back home...
Most U.S. playwrights focus on home and hearth, but David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) has become an international hit portraying political megatrends...
...obsessed life in Manhattan, in a rented midtown apartment with spectacular wraparound views. The place came furnished -- not even the throw pillows are his -- but he vows to decorate in style a newly purchased Manhattan triplex to which he will move in October. He rarely cooks or eats at home; instead he deftly table-hops at fashionable restaurants and dates "now and then." His "vice, if I have any," is clothing from Issey Miyake and other Asian designers...
...contrast to most American dramatists, who have excelled at depicting the struggles of home and hearth but not the larger world, Hwang thinks more shrewdly about mankind than about individual men and women. He has the steel- trap analytic grasp of the champion scholastic debater he once was, the lawyer he thought of becoming. The main weakness of his writing is that its purpose often seems more political than literary, more attuned to social issues than to the private struggles of the human heart. The final scene of M. Butterfly, when the agony of one soul finally takes precedence over...
...home the Japanese enjoy the soothing comfort of a hot ofuro, their traditional bath. On the road it's not so easy. Trying to re-create abroad their beloved steaming, full-tub soak, Japanese tourists have acquired a reputation for wreaking havoc on British hotel bathrooms...