Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stuffy class room is what Eaton sees as vital to Summer Splash's success. If the children enjoy their visit to the water exhibit, then they will ask to come again. But, Eaton adds, were it not for the cooperation of the surrounding business community and for modern trends in child raising, the exhibit would not have been as successful as it has been...
...would be the response of the dottily romanticizing tour guide Lettice, played by Maggie Smith in Lettice and Lovage, Shaffer's rambling but zesty comedy. The first act takes place in a dreary stately home, adorned chiefly by her fanciful tales. The last rings in the movement against modern architecture, a campaign / that, thanks in part to the patronage of Prince Charles, enjoys far fiercer support in Britain than in the U.S. To Lettice, modernism scorns the past and its romance. Yet what lingers from the play's three sprawling hours is Smith's one-woman parade of fussy antics...
...mood clings long to Reagan. Perhaps that is the secret of his durability in the presidency. By Thursday he was with Candidate George Bush and their respective political teams in a powwow in the White House Family Dining Room. The juices of one of the most successful campaigners of modern times were plainly undiminished by the week's grim tidings...
...clunky style of "Errand" is a throwback to the 19th century, but "Errand" is an experiment, a post-modern experiment, on the border between fiction and non-fiction. Capote's In Cold Blood and, more recently, Don DeLillo's Libra are other examples of the post-modern urge to cross genres and mix fact with fiction. Seen in this light, "Errand" is not a return of older influences, it is a departure from the rigid prohibitions that minimalism can impose...
...Brought up in Los Angeles, he now divides his time between a house in suburban Pasadena, Calif., and an apartment in Manhattan. A would-be actor, he began writing plays when a therapist suggested he compose an imaginary letter of forgiveness to his mother. Among his best works: The Modern Ladies of Guanabacoa, an evocation of the complex caste system in Cuba six decades ago, and Once Removed, which captures the bafflement and determination of a family uprooted by the Castro revolution and exiled in the U.S. "I was the first Hispanic playwright in America to write about upper- class...