Word: parlorized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current crop includes specimens of most of the genre's major varieties: big merchandise giveaways (Price Is Right), sophisticated parlor games spiced with celebrities ($100,000 Pyramid), R-rated competitions between couples coaxed into revealing embarrassing personal secrets (The New Newlywed Game). But most of the new hits are an odd throwback to an era of simple games and conventional contestants. Wheel of Fortune, in which players spin a giant wheel to reveal letters in a hidden phrase, is a variation on the old word game Hangman. At least three current imitators feature similar fill-in-the- blank word games...
...jumpsuits that comprise Michael H. Yeargan's sets and costumes could have been borrowed from an episode of "Battlestar Galactica." Brustein's characters speak their lines at breakneck speed and with near-feverish emotion to give Middleton's rhyming text the language and feel of everyday speech. No stuffy parlor play this...
Comparing his parlor to the newer ones in the Square, Sam says the "only difference is in personal taste. Some have better chocolate or vanilla, but they're all about equal. In terms of price we're the least expensive...
...some undergraduates charged the parlor with being too far from River houses and basically "outclassed" by the more upscale joints. "Baskin Robbins isn't trendy enough," says Anne Gregory...
Music in the Parlor: Classical guitar and soprano, Donna Tongue, soprano. The United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard St., 3:00pm...