Word: peopledeal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As the author recounts it in this delightful diary, England in the '30s was a wholly owned subsidiary of Eden. The evenings sound with the calls of nightingales, thrushes, plovers and owls; the rivers brim with trout; and the towns are peopled by honest peasants and serene aristocrats. One...
Back in the '60s when the Paul Taylor Dance Company traveled to the hinterlands, people mistook the troupe for the June Taylor Dancers from the Jackie Gleason Show. The confusion ended at curtain time. Then, instead of metronomic chorines, the stage was peopled with muscular, disciplined dancers falling, posturing...
For Shakespeare, England was a sceptered isle, another Eden, a blessed plot peopled by "such dear souls." For Alan Ayckbourn, writing nearly 400 years later, it is a dirty, overcrowded cabin cruiser, inhabited by a contentious crew of incompetents who could not navigate a bathtub, let alone the meandering river...
In the garage where, he believed, God whispered to him every night, Hampton slowly constructed the setting for the end of history, a suite of winged celestial furniture, complete with lecterns, pulpits, vases, an altar and crowns-180 objects in all. Only some of these are actually on exhibit; the...
For Ward, with a little help from Steinbeck, has peopled the row with an assortment of all-too-familiar oddballs. There's Doc (Nick Nolte), a handsome, lazy scientist: "the seer," a dotty wise-man-of-the-sea type: and Mac and his boys, a bumbling gang of filthy but...