Word: itches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...constantly aflush with anger, ardor, embarrassment. Anguish over dates and grades streaks the first application of mascara. Clique rivalries make the Iran-Iraq war seem congenial by comparison. Emotions newly discovered are unique and convulsive. She loves me! Life hates me! How anyone endures this seven-year manic-depressive itch is a mystery even to those who have survived...
...swiftly, and the Administration and Congress are now debating quite overtly the amount and type of "covert" aid to be extended to guerrillas battling the Marxist government of Angola. Even so, Congress remains suspicious that Casey is being evasive or misleading, while the CIA suspects the legislators of an itch to control delicate operations. Unhappily neither can be proved wrong...
...godless universe smiles on Hannah and her extended family. For one couple, like ends up with like; another pair discovers that compromise is the best salve for a seven-year itch. It could be that, at 50, Allen is looking not to accuse his characters, or even to absolve them, but to lay on a blessing. In his Manhattan everyone has his reasons, and almost everyone deserves a happy ending. Dear, dour Mickey gets blessed best, with a wry miracle of regeneration. The barrenness of despair gives way to a hope for continuation of the species. For most American directors...
...person who does accomplish this is David Silver. He has four roles, Antigone's sister, a sentry, Creon's son, and the messenger. He does justice to all of them. But his performance as the sentry is a highlight of the play. Watching him itch and listening to him stutter, the audience gets a sense of the character--a bewildered common man stuck in the midst of a battle of kings and gods...
...most of these aspiring talents, the attraction of writing works of length lies not in the glory of publishing but with the itch to create. Glenn E. Orenstein '88, who is currently working on a book called "Margaret Would Not Wash My Underwear," terms writing "an obsession...