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Olive wants nothing less for Verena than an airtight existence as her personal protege and possession. For a time, things work out: Verena is genuinely fond of her mentor, discloses her every thought and act, and shows promise as the darling of the East Coast parlour circuit as she delivers feminist addresses to fashionable audiences...

Author: By Hanne-marie Graffato, | Title: Grand Old Boston | 8/17/1984 | See Source »

...actors could succeed in arousing and then sustaining the audience's attention for the 10 scenes and this group does so by making each scene equally as powerful as the others. Each actor develops his own persona, which Schnitzler has broadly classified as whore (Carolone Isenberg), soldier (Tim Banker), parlour maid (Holley Stewart), young gentleman (Benjamin Cobb), young wife (Anne Higgins), husband (Jonathan Magaril), sweet young thing (Debbie Wasser), poet (Alek Keshishian), actress (Amy Brenneman), actress (Amy Brenneman), and Count (Paul O'Brien...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not For Squares | 7/1/1983 | See Source »

...characters are broadly defined and the actors effectively portray the spontaneity marking their sexual intercourse. These relationships describe an unhealthy attitude toward sex which they think is not as fulfilling as anticipated. For example, in the case of the soldier and parlour maid, he virtually has to rape her after they meet at a cafe. The couple really has nothing to bind them except passion which becomes the common bond uniting all the scenes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not For Squares | 7/1/1983 | See Source »

Sixty of those people gathered Friday night in Parlour B of the Freshman Union and sang "I've got peace like a river in my soul," clapping to the sound of three accompanying guitars, oblivious to the cynical pool and pinball players down the hall

Author: By Anthony Y. Strike, | Title: Christian Fellows Clamor for Converts | 3/9/1976 | See Source »

Last Thursday, the managing editor of The Crimson called the CRNC in Washington and received a preliminary okay to attend the Fieldman session here (no waiver of the registration fee, though). He showed up at the Phillips Brooks House Parlour Room Friday night to sign...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Hardshell Realism | 3/6/1973 | See Source »

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