Word: performer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seize the opportunity" of such go-go, free-market examples. The result was an explosion of economic growth and the elevation of "Deng Xiaoping Thought" to gospel, an ironic turn for a man who shuddered at "cults of personality." But it was the final somersault he had to perform to ensure the survival of his legacy...
...classic romantic triangle but with a twist: The "other woman" is an ectoplasmic ex-wife. Charles Condomine (Robert Bouffier) is a writer researching the occult for his next novel. Together with his second wife, Ruth (Sheila Ferrini), he summons the delightfully eccentric medium Madam Arcati (Mara Clark) to perform a seance in his home. Through some mysterious circumstances, his first wife Elvira (Dee Nelson) appears--and refuses to leave. One disaster after another ensues as Elvira and Ruth fight it out for their husband--fertile ground for Coward to flex his comic muscle...
Unfortunately, his insistence on repetition beats his jokes to death. The running gag of the show is the neurotic cockney maid Edith, who is unable to perform her duties at a normal pace. To clear the breakfast trays she needs a running start, and Ruth spends the duration of the play trying to slow her down. The triviality of this detail is magnified enormously as it is repeated, endlessly. Also distracting is the number of times Charles visits the liquor cabinet and meticulously makes dry martinis--stirred, not shaken. The pace of the plot is not quick enough to keep...
...definitely a tournament team," said head coach Jay Weiss. "We tend to perform much better in tournaments than we do during dual meets. We have a good number of guys who can potentially qualify for the NCAA...
...Crimson should be able to parlay the emotion of the close loss to Brown and the intense training of the next two weeks as perfect motivation for the tournament. There they can prove to the nation, and to themselves, their worthiness to perform on the national stage...