Word: oles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lead the charge. But Sarr Nunn balked at the opportunity, and so did former Virginia Governor Charles Robb. That left Albert Gore '69, Harvard overseer, prep-school graduate to carry the mantle. But the Eastern-educated senator has had his troubles convincing voters that he's a good ole' boy who was brought up on a pig farm in Tennessee...
Remember the 1980s? They had movie stars then. Burt Reynolds was the hot-shot hero with a good ole boy's heart. Richard Pryor was the clown who mined laughter from his own black rage. Molly Ringwald was the teen queen who knew that growing pains could hurt like an all-over, seven-year toothache...
Thus, if literature were important to politics what would be the fate of the good ole' American values of freedom and democracy? American capitalism has provided a great many people with both money and liberty, so who's a poet to argue...
Hauptman's play tells the story of Good 'Ole Boys gone bad. As American drama, Gillette is no masterpiece--which certainly won't prevent it from winning ten Tonys--but at the ART, it is a good 'ole play done well...
...half of the experience. Performances--either at the ART or in student projects at the Institute--make up the other half. Director David Wheeler cast four Institute students in the production of Gillette, which opened last week. Many other students are understudies in the Hauptman study of the good ole' boy. And Cabaret Sauvignon is entirely a student production...