Word: moonglow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...operations in the culture wars? Just take a stroll through the Sherman Oaks Galleria, a twinkling mall in California's San Fernando Valley. This is where the great outpouring of pop culture comes to market, a market that caters to all the moods of the American disposition, from moonglow to bloodlust. At Sam Goody's, the chain record store, the CD bins are stuffed with amiable releases by Hootie and the Blowfish and Boyz II Men. But they also hold the gangsta rap of Bloods and Crips and Tupac Shakur. Nearby, at the Time Out video arcade, Jordan Trimas...
...couple of notches, and you have the desired effect of A Cheever Evening, a series of sketches fashioned from Cheever stories by A.R. Gurney, now at Playwrights Horizons in New York City. It begins with cocktail chatter set to such nostalgic tunes as You'll Never Know and Moonglow, then flares into the peculiarly middle-class ugliness of verbal violence, rancor and self-pity. By the end, audiences should be thinking that the window through which they have seen the sins of the junior executive class is a mirror into their own messy hearts...