Word: lair
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Lola's American Deli sat in between Lair's Hallmark and McKenzie's Food Market in a shopping center near my home in Columbus, Ohio. For as long as I can remember, five foot tall Lola ran the deli, a modest establishment somewhat out of place amidst its upscale neighbors...
...Niro is Jack Byrnes, formerly (or maybe not so formerly) a CIA operative, projecting an air of sweet reason from his suburban colonial home. That it contains a secret lair equipped with a lie detector is nobody's business. That the lyrics of his favorite song, Puff the Magic Dragon, may contain a hidden metaphor comes as an unwelcome surprise to him. That a suggestion that his affection for his daughters, especially Pam (Teri Polo), may be touched by feelings that would make Oedipus blush could earn you termination with maximum prejudice--as the beta male candidate for her affections...
...thought "Survivor" was sketch! For "Big Diet," two producers have put together the most reprehensible premise for a television show in the history of the world - and it begins, intriguingly enough, with ten hapless overweight contestants. The creators will gleefully stuff these fatties into their booby-trapped lair and monitor their every move until the weekly climax where the contestant who has lost the least weight is ceremoniously booted from the house. The "Big Dieter" who loses the most weight wins that weight in gold. But alas, there must be a catch. And in the "Big Diet" house, our overstuffed...
JERRY BERMAN, 60 Free speech on campus and beer in the Bear's Lair" was Jerry Berman's campaign slogan when he ran for student-body vice president at Berkeley in 1962. "I wanted the radicals," he recalls, "but I was trying to get the fraternity vote too." Berman lost that race, but he has used his big-tent style to become a major political operator as head of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington-based advocacy group. As a proponent of free speech and privacy on the Net, Berman helped overturn the Communications Decency...
...point that they detract from the overall style of the ensemble effort. We almost welcome the benign and believable sense of normalcy they add in counterpoint to the wild posturing that takes place in nearly every other nook and cranny of the stage area, as designed by Kevin Lair. Lair's ambitious but simple set adds an attractive visual component to the plot. The play itself seems to cry out for the overstuffed trappings of the period and Lair precisely captures the sense of place essential to recreate the mood of the period with his spare settings...