Word: polos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MARCO POLO SINGS A SOLO by JOHN GUARE
Some playwrights have too few ideas -or none at all. John Guare (House of Blue Leaves) is of a rarer kind: his mind is a virtual breeder reactor of dramatic themes large and small. In Marco Polo Sings a Solo, a comedy now playing at Manhattan's Public Theater, Guare's reactor has run away from him. Ideas meet, collide and cancel one another out, like so many errant atoms, and his play explodes in a dozen directions...
...Marco Polo takes place on an island off Norway at the end of 1999, in the early light of the 21st century. Diane and Stony McBride (Madeline Kahn and Joel Grey) are the fun couple of the '90s: he is directing a movie about Marco Polo, and she is having an affair with Tom Wintermouth (Chris Sarandon), a global Mr. Fixit who has ingeniously resolved the Arab-Israeli crisis by creating the state of Saudi Israel...
...Plimpton's request. Watching the game from the bullpen. Meetings with his idols in the clubhouse. My own pulse accelerates at the thought of what such an opportunity would do to the pulse rate of the little freckled kid next door with the mustard-stained red-and-white striped polo shirt. But Plimpton was never one to gloat intensely over another's victories. Plimpton was not disposed to the vicarious pleasures most Americans derive from sitting glued to the tube, or listening to radio broadcasts of sporting events. If a sport intrigued him (as nearly every one did, at some...
...Nordhaus, like Schultze, can be expected to argue for vigorous federal action to combat high unemployment. Personally they also ought to get along well with the boss inasmuch as all three share a passion for outdoor sports: Schultze for backpacking in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the aristocratic Gramley for polo and fox hunting. Nordhaus for cross-country skiing...