Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Director Joe Giani presents Jesus and his followers as the punks and leafleters who hang out by Out of Town News, and the premise works extremely well. Jesus Christ wears penny loafers, the Jerusalem Temple sounds like the stock market and Mary Magdalene sports an "I Love Jesus" button...
...Little love has been lost between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the AFL-CIO. The labor federation expelled the Teamsters on charges of corruption in 1957, precipitating raiding wars in which each side sought to increase membership at the other's expense. That rift ended last week, when the AFL-CIO board, representing 13.1 million workers, voted to readmit the 1.8 million-strong Teamsters union. Said AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland: "This is a process of pursuing solidarity and bringing into one house all of labor's children...
...mother" delivers an obscene tongue- lashing; a man in a red-check robe staggers drunkenly as his belt whips with violent slaps against a board, while his "son" whimpers in pain; a young man sits huddled on the floor, repeating over and over, "Why doesn't anyone love me?" The air quivers with tension as the parts of the play come together and roles are refined. Tomorrow is the day of performance, and for most of these actors the investment is not merely the sweat of creation, it is the disgorging of memories of humiliation, anger and loneliness...
...comedy become so glum loving? Part of it can be attributed to the medium's cyclical swings. When the provocative Norman Lear comedies of the early '70s went out of fashion, sitcoms retreated to escapist fluff; now realism and relevance are coming back into vogue. The networks, moreover, are fond of high-profile, easily promotable episodes that can draw attention to a series. ("Next week on I Love Valerie: a crack dealer moves into the neighborhood.") Equally important, many writers and producers, tired of feeding the sitcom gag machine, are looking for ways to stretch the old formulas. Says Hugh...
...Alban, Frances Bander, Robert L. Becker, Minda Bikman, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Silvia Castaeda Contreras, Barbara Collier, Kenneth Collura, Barbara Dudley Davis, Osmar Escalona, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Kevin Kelly, Claire Knopf, Agustin Lamboy, Gyavira Lasana, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Anna F. Monardo, Peter K. Niceberg, Linda Parker, Maria A. Paul, Sherry Pierson, Lois Rubenstein, Judy Sandra, Elyse Sloman, Terry Stoller, Lamarr Tsufura, Maitena Z. Viani, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss, William Yusavage...