Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Louis Gates Jr. is assembling at Harvard is the most glittering display of black brainpower since W.E.B. Du Bois studied alone at the university a century ago. To its detractors in the black-studies movement, it is simply a collection of high-profile academic hustlers driven more by a lust for fame and big lecture fees than by any deep commitment to the field. Either way, the house that Gates is building in Cambridge has emerged as the most visible sign that black studies has been reborn as a vibrant academic discipline after a long period of disarray. Says Gerald...
...ARCADIA Tom Stoppard's complex, lucid drama--brought to Broadway under Trevor Nunn's direction after a lengthy London run--shuttles adroitly between the present and the 19th century, the allure of mathematics and the promptings of lust, broad comedy and large-scale tragedy. Stoppard's masterpiece demands comparison not just with other Broadway arrivals this year but also with the best in postwar English and American theater...
...notion that this blood lust can be suppressed in one year is ridiculous," Blackwill said. "There is zero hope that the warring factions can accept the benefits of peace in such a short time...
Full of murder, lust, adultery, suicide, and archaeologists, Lanford Wilson's "The Mound Builders" is bound to be shocking and entertaining. But despite the promise the play seems to hold, the production in the Loeb Ex last weekend took a while to realize its full potential. But when it did, it was a rousing, if not disturbing, success...
...eccentric, hypochondriac sister Delia Eriksen (Dana Gotleib) comes to live with them. The owner of the house in which they are all staying, the loveable and amusing backwoods hick Chad Jasker (Andrew Pitcher), is also always hanging around. Although there is obvious tension between August and Delia and obvious lust between Chad and Jean, everything is subtle. And for the most part, everyone gets along quite nicely...so nicely, in fact, that the audience is in danger of falling asleep...