Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seemed like the logical next step was to pull people together from different neighborhoods," Pitkin said. "These are all cross-cutting issues--no neighborhood can address any of those issues...
Charney seems to have adjusted to life in the shadow of Harvard's ivory tower, but with a new proposal to build the Knafel Center for the Humanities just across the street from William James, he says he feels his neighborhood's character slipping away...
...after getting mixed results in the City Council chambers, Pitkin said that the CRGM is beginning to focus on combining the forces of the city's collection of neighborhood development groups, such as Charney's Campaign to Stop Knafel...
...Fine." "Yeah, but how is she, though?") Scott Zigler has directed with haunting spareness. And the acting is top-notch, particularly Patti LuPone, feisty and funny as Jolly. But raiding the memory bank has made Mamet lazy. His plays have never been much concerned with plot, but The Old Neighborhood has no forward propulsion at all. Bobby spends most of the time staring off into the distance, head cocked slightly, as if groping for memories, meaning, connection. So are we. Because the play, in its terse but meandering way, occasionally stumbles on a snatch of family observation to which...
What's more, it is oddly similar to a very different playwright's latest failure. Neil Simon's Proposals--the comic kingpin's first Broadway effort since Laughter on the 23rd Floor in 1993--is, like The Old Neighborhood, a memory play that doesn't add up to much. Guided by the family's (now dead) housekeeper, we are taken back to the Poconos in the 1950s, on a summer weekend when several characters encounter a new love or are reunited with an old one. It would be nice to describe this as a flimsy pretext for a batch...