Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theatrical impact. The less-than-greatest playwrights still have not mastered that trick, and the quite a bit less-than greatest don't even realize the obsolescence of their plays. It is into that latter category that Hugh Whitemore falls; if most new plays were like the Broadway-bound pack of Lies the question would not be "Whither modern theater?" but "Whether...
Perhaps Whitemore, who has written works for both stage and screen, has gotten the two genres confused. The premise of Pack of Lies could have created an excellent IV movie. An inspector from Scotland Yard, a Mr. Stewart (Patrick McGoohan), asks a suburban London couple if they might lend their upper floor for a bit of police surveillance work. Bob Jackson (George N. Martin) is willing to defer to the authority of Her Majesty's Representative, but his wife Barbara (Rosemary Harris) is not so sure...
...author traps himself between his desire to keep Pack of Lies true to life (the story is based on an actual spy case of the 1960s), and turning it into good theater. Realism wins out, but reality is rarely interesting on the stage. Bob and Barbara are conventional people, and they can do no more than have the conventional reactions to their predicament...
...clove craze began on the West Coast around 1980. Now, says Beatrice Schwalbe, 19, a former two-pack-a-day kretek smoker from Costa Mesa, "anywhere you find a bunch of teen-agers, you'll find clove cigarettes." New York City Importer George Georgopulo reports that sales of the two leading brands--Jakarta and Djarum--have jumped 40% in the past year alone...
During a confrontation with FBI agents the day after Thanksgiving, according to the FBI affidavit, Koecher "voluntarily made and signed a written statement" admitting the theft and cigarette-pack transaction. Officials would not explain why he had confessed or why he was allowed to roam free for the five days before his arrest...