Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lebanon appears to be less of a bargain. While civil wars in Central. America are tragedies of modern history, the melting pot that is Lebanon has been at it for nearly fifteen centuries...
This musical is a cross between a Dionysian revel and an old-fashioned revival meeting. The religion that Hair preaches, and often screeches, is flower power, pot and protest. Its music is pop-rock, and its dialogue is mostly graffiti. Hair is lavish in dispraise of all things American, except presumably liberty. The play itself borders on license by presenting a scene in which half a dozen members of the cast, male and female, face the audience in the nude. This tableau is such a dimly lit still life that it will leave most playgoers yawning...
...Gallagher couldn't resist taking a final pot shot at Harvard, quipping. "I hate to break the news to you, but you don't have the reputation for being a hearty-party school...
...shock them. Likewise, Eddie's staggering feats of drinking become banal with repetition. Thankfully, vodka does not interfere with the lucidity of either his narration or his pain. Although he describes his own unhappiness and self-degradation with the same unsentimental gusto he might use on approaching a pot of hearty Russian cabbage soup, he never lets his explication of these problems degenerate into the murky themes of an alcoholic burp...
During the next four years Phnom Penh and other Cambodian cities turned into ghost towns. Lien, Ty and Van (her other brother) toiled in labor camps in the countryside, fulfilling Pol Pot's (the Khmer Rouge leader's) vision of a peasant farming nation. The Khmer Rouge were hostile and brutal against the people who had lived comfortably in the cities while they had struggled and fought in the jungles for a new Cambodia...