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PLAY, AMERICAN STYLE, refers less and less to a crack of a bat or even a hearty game of shuffleboard. If play provokes our spiritual development and teaches us better table manners, then we now learn the morality of snap decisions and reflexes. Painlessly, we can acquire the ethics of...
There are strains. The grandparents prefer to speak Spanish at home and tune in only Spanish-language TV and radio programs, Don Carlos, center, and his family while Uva and Jorge switch back and forth between Spanish and English programs, and Uvi and Christina strictly prefer American offerings. The grandmother...
Parody is Christopher Durang's native element. He can mimic and spoof manners, trends and styles of speaking in ways that inflict the sting of truth just as surely as those of a good caricaturist. But Durang tends to end his plays unconvincingly, in a spasm of violence, as...
I find it amusing to think that Boston's Appleton Street, referred to in your story "Trying to Tame the Automobile [Oct. 12] can be subdued by speeds of 5 to 10 m.p.h. and that drivers will mind their manners. Boston drivers have been out of control for years...
The (English) Beat may singlehandedly save the ska revival. Out of all thos bands (Selecter, Madness, Specials, Bad Manners) they stand alone with two uncontestedly great, danceable, moody, records. The 50 plus year old saxist Saxa, vocalist Ranking Roger, et al, have great action. On their first disc, I Just...