Word: maze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Through the maze of The Dining Room's skits we hear Gurney's futile, nostalgic plea for the return to the America that he knew in his youth--an American tradition of which the "dining room" is a part. Depending on the age of the spectator, one may find himself either weeping with the author over his lost childhood or tiring of Gurney's whimperings and yearning for the future, not a unretrievable past...
...operated a gridwork of cushy monopolies that allowed them to earn a guaranteed rate of return, limited their exposure to loss and actually punished them for experimenting with anything that didn't meet strict standards of "prudency." Under the banner of protecting consumers of electricity from being overcharged, a maze of federal, state and local regulations had built up that stifled incentive to change...
...yard section of the street is given over every Sunday to a complicated obstacle course of traffic cones. At one end of this maze lies the showpiece, a three foot high wooden ramp. Trevor occasionally soars off this slanted plane, putting up to seven feet of air between himself and the ramp...
Mather House, the riot-proof high rise designed in 1968, is color-coded according to function. Reddish brown means living space, while white indicates public space or structural support. As if that coding wasn't sterile enough, architects designed Mather's inner passages to look suspiciously like a rat maze...
...called himself with no undue bashfulness, was as the bus driver Ralph Kramden in his long- rerunning TV show, The Honeymooners. In THE GREAT ONE: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF JACKIE GLEASON (Doubleday; $22.50), Time's theater critic, William A. Henry III, sorts amiably through the maze of lies the funnyman wove around his tangled life, including one woozy story about two newlyweds and Gleason, all drunk, and a goat that may have been sober...