Word: narrow
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Petrarca has insisted in past interviews that to call this a play about AIDS is to narrow its scope, and to ignore McPherson's original intentions in 1990. But to think of this play as not about AIDS is also to narrow its scope and to ignore McPherson's current sensibilities. McPherson wrote in the note for the program in 1991: "Now I am 31 and my lover has AIDS. Our friends have AIDS. And we all take care of each other, the less sick caring for the more sick. At times an unbelievably harsh fate is transcended...
...clever TV analyst for ESPN: "If Walsh was a general, he would be able to overrun Europe with the army from Sweden." Leonard Koppett, whose observations of the game have graced many publications, including the New York Times, for almost 50 years, puts it another way: "In that narrow field of conceptual football, Walsh is a genius the way Heifetz was a genius with the violin...
This dereliction of intellectual duty has made the academic ground fertile for the growth of a "sentimental and non-critical nostalgia for the past," he says. In addition, "moral vision has been replaced with narrow and naked group interest" among the youth...
According to the sources, their deductionswould narrow the field of suspects to threeindividuals--the two who failed to identifyballots and the third who identified the extraballot...
YUPPIES IN PERIL. AGAIN. THIS time it's Richard and Priscilla Parker (Kevin ; Kline and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) who are lured away from their narrow suburban patterns of getting and spending, both financial and sexual. The seducer is their next-door neighbor, Eddy Otis (Kevin Spacey), abetted by his wife Kay (Rebecca Miller). First Eddy masterminds an insurance scam to help the Parkers out of credit-card debt. Next he encourages a spot of highly improbable wife swapping. Can violent crimes -- and false accusations leveled at poor, increasingly bedeviled Richard -- be far behind...