Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started her career at Legal Times, where she made use of her law degree from George Washington University, before moving on to Esquire and the New Republic. Since joining TIME in 1988, she has written in-depth profiles of personalities ranging from presidential candidates Bill Clinton, Jerry Brown and Pat Buchanan to actress Katharine Hepburn and comic Billy Crystal. "The challenge is to find the politics in Billy Crystal and the humor in Bill Clinton," she says. Her most recent subject was the relationship between Bill and Hillary Clinton, in an article that ran in the Man of the Year...
...chance to present the most popular Republican in 50 years, creator of a whole class of political converts known as Reagan Democrats. What did they do? They had Ronald Reagan speak near midnight, when most of America was fast asleep. Who got the prime 9 o'clock spot? Pat Buchanan with his promise of "religious war." Reagan ended his speech with his "shining city upon a hill" peroration, a vision of the sunny uplands of America's future. Buchanan ended his speech too with a vision of America at its best: a couple of soldiers pointing...
...especially talented cast is the main attraction of this production. As the hilariously affected Natasha Navratilova, Janine Poreba is a marvelous Russian femme fatale. Her performance is just overdone enough to maintain the farcical edge, never lapsing into cliched corn. Chip Rossetti gives a pat, almost smug performance as playwright Sandor Turai. Turai is almost a straight parody of the Author in Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of the Character and while studied, Rossetti is more than amusing enough to keep us engaged...
...musical score, by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays, is a nearly constant accompaniment. At times the strong beat and rippling melody of the jazz parallels and strengthens the emotional timbre of the play. Elsewhere, the production seems overbearing: in several dramatic moments, the music swells as a red spot light, apparently connoting "high emotion content," shines down on the actors...
...Nora Theatre Company's production of Orphans, which premiered last week at the Union, managed to bring real dramatic tension to a building more often the site of food-fights than good theater. Featuring a small cast, a dynamic set and an unusual musical score by Pat Metheny, Orphans skilfully depicts the emotional turmoil of its three characters, slipping only occasionally into melodrama...