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...Drama Society renders an impressive performance of Edward Albee's classic Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. A cosy setting without lights, curtain or stage serves to bring the audience right into the living room with sparring couple George (Daniel Zelman) and Martha (Alicia Rubin), and their tortured guests Nick (Aaron Carlos) and Honey (Jane Loranger...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: A Good Fright | 3/7/1986 | See Source »

...games of boozy, castrating Martha, daughter of a small-college president, and her bitter husband George, who is "in the History Department instead of being the History Department." At 2:30 a.m., George and Martha have visitors, a miscast Aaron Carlos as up-and-coming young biologist, Nick, and his mousy wife Honey, brilliantly acted by Jane Loranger...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: A Good Fright | 3/7/1986 | See Source »

...course of the evening, Nick and Honey grow to be old hands at George's and Martha's form of verbal warfare/lovemaking through a series of parlor games: Humiliate the Host, Get the Guests, Hump the Hostess, and, finally and most deadly, Bringing Up Baby. None of the characters is spared by the scalpel of these not-so-playful plays. Father-killing, mother-killing, baby-killing--all are dredged up for common consumption...

Author: By Ariela J. Gross, | Title: A Good Fright | 3/7/1986 | See Source »

Even his passing, in 1969, came in the nick of time. The American architect Robert Venturi had just published his influential rejection of less-is-more Miesian modernism ("Less is a bore," Venturi punned), and younger colleagues were starting to grumble that the inspirational rigor of the International Style had turned to rigor mortis. Death spared Mies both from seeing any of the lush species of postmodernism and from the ignominy of a public rejection in 1985, when British authorities denied a die-hard Miesian builder permission to put up a high-rise that Mies had designed for the City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: His Was the Simplicity That Stuns | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...Ohno 22 5 9 14 4 14 23 S. Armstrong 22 5 6 11 16 11 11 Jerry Pawloski 22 2 9 11 14 2 18 Pete Chiarelli 19 2 8 10 14 11 18 Pete Follows 18 4 5 9 2 13 17 Nick Carone 21 6 2 8 26 6 6 Chris Biotti 15 3 5 8 18 3 5 Don Sweeney 19 4 3 7 8 7 10 Greg Chalmers 6 2 2 4 10 28 31 Andy Janfaza 16 1 3 4 18 3 5 Josh Caplan 18 1 2 3 4 1 2 Gerald Green...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: A Year Later, the Tables Are Turned | 2/20/1986 | See Source »

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