Word: picnics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wood Ants all over that part of Surrey chose Midsummer Day for their nuptial flight. No one was prepared for this in 1861--indeed, the young adults and the school-room inhabitants were all partaking of a strawberry picnic on the lawn when the swarming began, and hundreds of frantic, tumbling creatures, male and female, dropped out of the sky and into the cucumber sandwiches and the silver cream jugs, scurrying away in attached pairs, drowning in strawberry juice and Orange Pekoe, scrambling across spoons and lace doilies...
...begin almost immediately. "It's the ultimate cop-out to let them fight it out," says Lord Owen, who has been trying to broker a negotiated settlement for almost two years. Owen aside, there is no assurance that the genocide will moderate. Does anyone seriously think the Serbs will picnic as their opponents arm, or that they'll suddenly respect the lightly defended enclaves where innocents have gathered to escape the slaughter, the so-called safe havens they are currently shelling with impunity? Similarly, there is no certainty that the war won't widen in the Balkans anyway, and hardly...
...care reform -- two goals that will require the greatest skill now that the latest private White House assessment has concluded that the money needed to fix the health-care mess could reach $175 billion, a sum more than twice the initial forecast. "The stimulus fight will look like a picnic compared with health care," says a Clinton aide. "But everything's possible if we include everyone in. On the other hand, nothing's possible if we continue to turn every disagreement into some kind of Quien es mas macho? thing. The President can do it if he wants...
...Frank (Robert Feldstein) forces himself on the civilized society of the idealic couple, Ernest (David Shafer) and Jane (Wynne D. Love). With incessant, nonsensical conversation on topics ranging from urban renewal projects to his illustrious career as a toll both operator, Frank intrudes upon Ernest and Jane's weekly picnic at the beach...
...excellent direction provides for laughter, tension and release at more immediate levels. Making "symbolic," often frustrating dialogue accessible to the audience, Benjamin includes many episodes of welltimed, appropriate slapstick that bring the audience to laughter in the midst of this grim play. When the main characters begin their picnic, Frank eats barbarically while Ernest carefully slices his hot dog; as time goes on, Ernest begins to spit out hot dog chunks just as disgustingly as Frank. Ernest's long hair gradually falls out of his ponytail throughout the play, and Frank only puts his long hair into a ponytail when...