Word: homeyness
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...lights rise on a fairly elaborate living room, cluttered and homey No streetlamps here: the idiom is absolutely current, the conversation of two writers in their early 20s grounded in references so familiar and accessible that they occasionally give one pause. The writer, John Monroe (Kevin Porter), is an Amherst dropout writing a novel. A former girlfriend wanted him to go back to business school, he tells Natalie, the lover who narrates his story, but the relationship went nowhere Natalie. (Pamela Thomas) has graduated and now works as a secretary in the publishing house where John hopes to submit...
...production suffers from an aura of incompleteness, thanks in part to flaws in the script but also to a lack of fluidity in the mechanics of the show Lacking a real stage, the play is performed starkly on the floor of K-House's junior common room. Its one homey set is adorned with serious weapons and a portrait of the "hero." Scene changes occur lethargically, as the audience must unnecessarily wait in dark silence as it watches the characters move stealthily around on stage The sound effects--like the doorbell whose ring sounds like a lion's roar...
Throughout the play's five acts, performed without intermission, the note most often sounded is that of the homey cliche. Childhood ("Friday Night Dreams Come True") is two little girls on roller skates, singing and giggling over love-notes. Lonely young adulthood ("The Curse of an Aching Heart") is a parade of idiosyncratic young men and irate foreign neighbors, and the ups and downs of a love affair with a smooth young Irishman named Lugs (Terrance O'Quinn), whom Fran eventually marries. Continuity is a hard-boiled, comical best friend. "The trauma of growing...
...Bermuda Shoot is part of what makes Harvard basketball games the homey, fun-for-the-whole-family get-togethers that they are. It's one of the things that reminds the partisans to take the sport a little less than too seriously. The IAB, the ragtag Harvard band, and the pack of little kids who play bumper cars at the foot of the grandstand serve the same purpose...
...child in Kansas City, Mo., he banged out his first compositions at the piano, with the sustaining pedal down and the dynamic level up. Years later, an American sophisticate in Paris, he collaborated on an opera with Gertrude Stein, Four Saints in Three Acts, fashioning deceptively simple, homey music out of "Pigeons on the grass alas." His 1937 score for Filling Station, with its truck drivers, state troopers and gun-toting gangsters, became the first successful all-American ballet. Although serious composers generally have shunned film scores as hack work, he produced seven of them, and in 1949 collected...