Word: juking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Away rises above mere nostalgia, but it doesn't avoid romanticizing the past. The Bedford children are a bit too precocious in racial matters (15- year-old Nathaniel is bold enough to visit a black juke joint to listen to the music) and Lily too poetically noble. The town's first racial protest, moreover, is a sit-in that might have been a model for Gandhi. To protest the verdict in a case that Forrest has prosecuted, demonstrators gather slowly on the courthouse steps. They sit motionless, hushed, intense -- almost holy. The way it was? Or the way TV would...
...audience enters the theater, they are greeted as if present at a Rydell High School reunion. The set is painted with images from the 50s: a juke box, the old RCA record label and period Pepsi bottlecaps. The effect is eye-catching, if a bit unconnected to the events of the play...
Last week the store received the Personics System, which is composed of two Sony juke boxes with headphones. It enables a customer to compile and record a personally chosen set of songs...