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...planned Lesson to audiences at the Loeb Experimental Theatre November 16-19. The Lesson is a short play (one hour long) ostensibly about a high-strung professor and his too-eager pupil. From the beginning of the play we get a sense of the ominous, as the professor's maid ushers in the fresh-faced girl with a look of disdain and a note of warning...

Author: By Emily J. Wood, | Title: Ionesco's Apt Lesson Sends Up Its Own Questions | 11/30/1995 | See Source »

...Bear hyperextends this motif. A creditor, Grigory (James O'Brien), visits the grieving maid, Elena (Mimi Huntington), to collect on a debt from her late fiancee--only to find she has no money. Inevitably the two turn to fighting each other as man and woman, the man swearing through his teeth that women are faithless and the spurned woman obviously holding a much stronger case...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Three's (Almost) A Charm for the Nora | 9/28/1995 | See Source »

...from a London design school this year, already knows enough about fashion to persuade friends NAOMI CAMPBELL, Kate Moss and Yasmin Le Bon to wear her clothes in a student show for parents and industry types. Her collection, described by one critic as "part Penny Lane, part Rita, Meter Maid," must have satisfied the paparazzi, who stomped out as soon as her segment was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 26, 1995 | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

...what turns out to be a piece of disastrous timing,California Gov. Pete Wilsonwill declare his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination tonight on CNN's "Larry King Live." The Immigration and Naturalization Service said today that it is investigating whether Wilson's former maid, an illegal immigrant, faked a marriage to stay in the country legally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIS JUST IN . . . AGAIN | 6/22/1995 | See Source »

Sometimes in politics, the best offense is a good defense. So when Pete Wilson's ex-wife telephoned the California Governor's office six weeks ago with the news that the long-divorced couple had once employed an undocumented immigrant as a maid -- and neglected to pay her Social Security taxes -- Wilson's chief of staff, Bob White, knew what to do. Before anyone could say "Zoe Baird," he requested John Davies, a San Diego attorney, to look into the matter. Davies, in turn, hired a bilingual tax preparer to check the laws, speak with the housekeeper and Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN SEARCH OF SKELETONS | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

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