Word: kit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stand") that is one of Milk and Honey's sharpest cuts. This song, according to the call-and-response style established by Double Fantasy, is answered by One's reassuring Don't Be Scared, which contains wisdom ("If your hearts are lit/ Drop your survival kit/ Then you never have to/ Run or split") that would be poor balm even to the troubled soul of a fortune-cookie writer...
...company has spent more than $200 million building eight Crowne Plaza hotels, its new line of cushy inns with rooms priced at about 20% more per night than the average $42 Holiday Inn room. Offering its guests such little extras as a free morning paper and a toiletry kit, the company will portray Crowne Plaza as luxury at reasonable rates. Spacious rooms designed for business travelers will be available in another Holiday Inn chain called Embassy Suites...
Unfortunately, the cast fails to capitalize on the script's potential. The acting seems as flat as the champagne bottle Kit uncorks each time she drinks her way through woe. The audience waits for a fizz, but instead all we get is an occasional fizzle...
From the opening scene between Kit and Rudd, the play begins its descent downhill. Though Howe makes a noble attempt to enliven the show with frequent gesticulations and facial expressions, she fails to interact with the others on stage. Her performance fluctuates depending upon the scene, unlike her voice which seems locked in an interminable monotone. Haynes encounters similar difficulty. His emotions vary little throughout the performance, and he generates about as much enthusiasm for proposing marriage as he does when discussing the weather...
...Mark's performance stands out as charismatic, it only serves to reinforce how pathetically mundane and melodramatic the rest of the show seems. Kit and Milly's final toast to "old acquaintance" appropriately underscores the painful irony of the entire performance--that the story's central relationship is never truly developed...