Word: penned
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...clinical) treatment of the politics of mental institutions. But Blue/Orange is in pitifully small company when it comes to innovative new works. The word around Andrew Lloyd Weber's upcoming The Beautiful Game is that it will be less than ground-breaking. And the two new plays from the pen of millionaire writer-director Alan Ayckbourn, House and Garden (two interconnected pieces performed by the same cast simultaneously on two different stages at the National Theater) are all concept and no content. In fact, the best piece of original, recent English writing in London today is probably Passion Play...
Bruce Teigen has six more thank-you notes to write. But his fingers, chafed and bloated, can't grip a pen very well anymore. He is blind in his left eye and has blurry vision in his right, but Bruce, never a complainer, vows to complete the chore in the coming days. His mother Phyllis Moore pulls out a stack of blank greeting cards for him to choose from. "This one says, 'With special thoughts of you,' and has a cute teapot on it," she calmly tells her son as he sits on his well-worn living-room rocker. "This...
...suggests that being out of things is a way of seeing the things one is out of more clearly. Like the old visual puzzle that showed nine dots in the shape of a square, and you had to connect them all in a single diagram, without lifting your pen from the paper. The solution was to draw the connecting lines starting outside the dots...
...salesman who has grown so detached from his family that when he returns home, his kids won't talk to him and his wife cuts him off in mid-conversation with a curt "I'm online here." Andre Braugher (NBC's "Homicide") is serial felon recently freed from the pen, still wearing his prison-issued shoes. And Maria Bello (NBC's "ER") is a con woman who's willing to exchange oral sex for an automobile paint job (she's the one giving out the former...
...Three hours into the speech, the press pen looked more like the aftermath of a college fraternity party. Reporters were sleeping on one another, some hid under the church benches, anywhere one could get some shuteye...