Word: mum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love. What makes the play so startling is its mix of old-fashioned dramaturgy--the plot hinges on an undelivered letter--and the chilling, unsentimental way in which it shows the casual cruelty people wield against each other. This is a play in which a daughter slams her mum's hand onto a hot stove and scarcely bats...
...Mum is going mad, Da is a drunk, and what's worse, 12-year-old Francie Brady (played by the remarkable Eamonn Owens) lives in a provincial town in Ireland in the early '60s. That means neighbors who are either dim or actively disapproving as the Bradys fall further and further into disarray. It also means that Francie's racing imagination is being fed with cultural junk food--cheap religious icons and TV purveying low-end sci-fi and images of the atomic Armageddon that everyone brooded on in those days...
Just in time. For the Zone has become the diet of choice for many world-class athletes and has reportedly hooked celeb dieters Madonna, Howard Stern and Bill Clinton, though the White House is keeping mum. Considering the short shelf life of most fads, the Zone has reached adolescence gracefully. In Southern California it has mushroomed from a life-style choice to an industry. Life Zone, a health club devoted solely to putting people on Zone diets, has seen 1,500 customers in the past two years enlist in its 12-week program. At the bistro L.A. Farm...
While Clinton's generation of women was so vocal about having families, careers and doing everything perfectly, our generation tries to keep mum. We are advised in law school not to wear our wedding band or engagement ring to job interviews for fear that employers will view us as baby machines, women too distracted by a family to devote 80 hours a week...
...MUM'S THE WORD...