Word: portal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...central device in Alan Ayckbourn's Communicating Doors is a portal between hotel suites that carries women who step through it either 20 years forward or 20 years back in time. This idea may seem offbeat even for a farce, but it is not surprising from a man whose nearly 50 other plays involve such tricks as a robot spouse used in a child-custody battle; audience choices that provide a script with 16 endings; and a three-story house seen on one level (with actors tiptoeing up and down -- that is, back and forth -- along imaginary stairs). "Games...
...minute flight to Tbilisi. What little space remains is packed with refugees who even wedge themselves into the toilets, indifferent to the stench. The situation is horrific, but now that the Abkhazian artillery has made evacuation by sea impossible, the only remaining exit from Sukhumi is this exposed portal...
...warm limo on a cold day set James Baker apart from normal working folks. Consequently, Clinton's chief of staff, Mack McLarty, will be making his own way to the office. Of the 45 cars at hand for portal-to-portal service in the Bush Administration, only 16 will remain. That stack of six pristine daily newspapers on every desk in the West Wing: gone. White House mess privileges, which were what separated the merely important from the princes who whisper in the President's ear, will be extended to the clerks who sort the mail, if they can stand...
...planning to start either a "second adulthood" or a new life as a "crone" (Greer's term), the new menopause genre will read like the ghastly tracts on menstruation that used to be inflicted on girls in the 1950s. Puberty then, like menopause now, was a portal labeled ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE...
...WHEN IT SEEMS THAT RICHARD DARMAN CAN'T GET ANY less popular in Washington, the White House budget chief goes ahead and very publicly renounces his privileged use of the chauffeured car that comes with the job. What's more, Darman is advising fellow Cabinet appointees to give up "portal to portal" service and restrict the use of motor pools in their agencies, or else his Office of Management and Budget will do it for them. Presidential aides agree that the push against perks is a smart move that will allow Bush to continue railing against congressional excesses. Says...