Word: invalids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That perennial invalid, Broadway, is faring better this season but hardly thriving. The theater year started more than nine months ago, with the cutoff for last spring's Tony Awards. It has produced only two new American plays that are still running. Add two London imports and three revivals--one of which, Blood Knot, closes this week--and there you have it: the total of non- musical survivors on the Great Gray Way. Why, then, does New York City seem abuzz with theatrical vitality? In large part because Off Broadway is providing a satisfying mix of star turns, ensemble work...
...reiterate his claim to victory, by a new margin of 1.5 million votes. He reminded journalists that the formal naming of a winner was the responsibility of the National Assembly, which he controls, and even raised the vague possibility that he might declare the whole election invalid...
Cambridge and Harvard police are investigating the accident. But the driver of the car, Michael C. Miller, 24, of 36 Melendy Ave., Watertown, has been cited for operating an automobile with an invalid driver's license...
...videotape of the gory murder was watched by television viewers across Japan (as well as in the U.S. and other countries), including Nagano's 63- year-old invalid mother. Outraged viewers deluged newspapers and television stations with calls demanding to know why reporters and photographers had not tried to stop the killers or even summon the police. Japan's largest daily, Yomiuri Shimbun, criticized the journalists for putting their professional duties before humanitarian concerns, adding that "the mass media should search their souls." The suspect in another fraud investigation decided he was not taking any chances. The day after Nagano...
...shut-in hears neighborhood news: "Call it gossip if you will; but when nurse Rooke has half an hour's leisure to bestow on me, she is sure to have something to relate that is entertaining and profitable, something that makes one know one's species better." What the invalid learns is that "it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of." Comments Spacks: "Nurse Rooke's gossip provides pleasure, in other words, by its recitals of base rather than noble manifestations...