Word: peg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With its Southern eccentrics and loony humor, Am I Blue is easy to peg as a Beth Henley work. Set in New Orleans circa 1968, it follows characters that would fit right into her 1982 play Crimes of the Heart. John Polk (Nicholas Martine-Smith) and Ashbe Williams (Jacqueline Grad) are as sweet, strange and irresistable as the three McGrath sisters...
...program is Lindsay W. Davis '75 (class year proudly added) who is responsible for the sets and costumes. It seems as if the actors leap off-stage every 40 seconds, returning with a new costume even more hilariously appropriate than the last. Sharkskin jackets with velvet collars, peg-leg pants with built-in bicycle clips, skirts floating on clouds of crinoline, striped loafers and white bucks, strapless cocktail dresses revealing white powdered shoulders. The hats along bring a lump to the throat...
...staff aims to put out three issues per semester once the paper has been established, but will probably only publish three more issues during this academic year. "We haven't had any meetings, and we're still getting the whole thing organized," said business manager and writer Peg F. Pisani...
...long after Griswold's entrance, tuxedoes became socially acceptable. By the turn of the century, tailors were producing tuxes as blithely as they turned cuffs; the rage became the rule. The first off-the-peg tux appeared around World War I, and tails were dusted off mostly for coronations. Movie stars such as Gary Cooper, William Powell, Cary Grant and Fred Astaire burnished the national formal-fashion ideal. Cooper looked as cool in a dinner jacket as he did in jeans...
...waited patiently, playing mumblety-peg and drinking ourselves silly by the mailbox. This was one bash we were not prepared to miss. But the hours went by, day turned into night, cops told us to move on, and still no invites. Stories started turning up in the media about the big do that was going on in Orlando. Our favorite radio station began broadcasting live from there...