Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Toddy, who is played with great good spirit by Robert Preston, speaks too soon. For the old queen is anything but an object of pity. Since his new pal looks so dapper in the suit she borrows from him after her clothes have been ruined in a rainstorm, he shrewdly conceives the idea of having her become a female female impersonator: in other words, a woman who plays a man playing women...
WHEN THE AUDIENCE files into the Old Library, the set for The Cradle Will Rock consists of only one object--an awkward cardboard-like streetlamp. The lights dim to blackness, a jarring piano theme begins, and quite suddenly the streetlamp switches on, illuminating a prostitute leaning against it. It is the first of many delicate and imaginative effects in a double-bill evening that provides more food for thought than most troupes could gracefully handle...
...recalls a Scrooge who has out-eaten his suit size and suffers itching and cramping as a result. Benedict constructs a mournful, perpetually apologetic Chulkaturin who simultaneously invites scorn and nurturing, contempt and sympathy. In a lesser part, Jeremy Geidt plays a convincingly gruff, patriarchal Ozhogin, father to the object of Chulkaturin's clumsy and unrequited youthful affections...
...change is visible in the nation's restaurants. At George's, an Italian restaurant on Chicago's West Kinzie Street, Owner George Badonsky still serves highly flavored sauces and rich Gorgonzola. But some of his younger customers object. Says he: "The biggest complaint I get is that the food is too salty." That is not a problem at Chez-Eddy in Houston, which specializes in lowfat, low-salt French cuisine and has no salt shakers on the tables. But, says one patron who is mad for their salmon mousse, "the place is always packed at lunchtime...
...convinced that the taste of salt masks the natural flavor of foods-a lifelong coverup. If you wish to wean your taste buds away from salt, the object is to find other flavors that will distract your palate...