Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kevin Kain plays Robert, husband of Emma and Jerry's best friend. If his performance cannot be called refreshing, that is only because of the emotionally draining play, not his acting. Kain captures his character perfectly--he is cold and snide and suspicious, and real. His best moment occurs when he tries to force Emma to admit her affair to him. Kain realizes the torturing potential of his lines and brings the darts of Pinter's allusions into clear and cold focus...
...cents throwaway items since 1973. According to the litigants, the lighter is an unstable fire bomb that can self-ignite in housecoat pockets and purses and on car dashboards. Bic accidents have allegedly claimed the life of at least one victim, Ethel Smith of Tower City, Pa., whose husband is suing for $11 million. Other suits against the company * could easily mount into additional millions of dollars. In one of the first Bic cases tried in open court, Philadelphia Artist Cynthia Littlejohn last November won $3.25 million based on her claim that a Bic lighter ignited in her front pocket...
...common perception: love does not last; it is, like life itself, a temporary shelter. In such a context, wedding vows become highly problematic, promises made in defiance of experience and reason. Still, the women take the risk. The narrator of Now I Am Married concludes, "He is my husband, I say slowly, swallowing a new, exotic food. Does this mean everything or nothing? I stand with him in an ancient relationship, in a ruined age, listening beyond my understanding to the warning voices, to the promise of my own substantial heart." In Safe, a wife and new mother suddenly realizes...
...smashed the snide poetry in Joe's brains to pulp, then swallowed 22 Nembutals and died. If Orton had lived a bit longer, he might have done justice in his work to the themes that informed his 16 years with Halliwell: love vs. jealousy, career vs. home life, husband vs. wife, son vs. mother. As it was, he wrote three full-length plays (Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot, What the Butler Saw) that subverted old genres and modern society with a cheekily amoral wit. Now Alan Bennett has dramatized Orton's life in Prick Up Your Ears, based on John Lahr...
PERHAPS IN AN attempt to remedy the situation, local impresarios Candace Avery and Peter Gold created the Boston Music Awards. The idea was to "draw national attention to the area's great well of talent," says Avery, whose ex-husband's band, New Man, was nominated in five categories. "I sincerely believe there's no greater music city in the country," Gold says...