Word: rest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with finese. Her seduction sequences with Nick are provocative. Her voice almost purrs and she does not merely walk, she saunters. At the end of the play, when she is left all alone, Martha reveals the tenderness that has remained hidden behind her tough exterior for most of the rest of the play. Gunn capably exposes Martha's major weakness, her deep love for George...
...those in search of festivity, the off-season is one long calendar of celebrations. There are rituals of planting and harvesting, the autumn wine festivals in Burgundy, the pre-Lenten carnivals of Venice and Portugal, the Vienna winter balls. In most countries, while summer is reserved for rest and recreation, the main cultural and social season runs from fall to spring. Vienna's opera and symphony seasons open with daily performances in September and last until June, while La Scala in Milan runs from December through June. The London theater season offers some of its freshest performances and premieres...
...lost by a patient during surgery. When faced with gaping wounds that ooze large quantities of blood into body cavities -- as in open-heart or orthopedic surgery -- surgeons can reclaim half of it with suction devices, cleanse it in purifying machines and send it back into the patient. The rest is lost because it either spills out or is soaked up by the gauze sponges used to keep the operating field...
...your real mom." Her idea of a high time is going out to dinner at a restaurant "that don't have a drive-through." Hearing that two friends have got divorced, she responds with resentful sarcasm: "They shoulda stuck it out in the trenches, dodgin' that shrapnel with the rest of us that believe in true love...
...loosely structured, slice-of-life episodes rather than sitcom contrivances. A typical Roseanne segment might revolve around something as prosaic as a visit to a restaurant or a discussion of how to pay the bills. (Roseanne's strategy: "You pay the ones marked final notice, and you throw the rest away.") Best of all, behind the put-downs and childish taunting lies a genuinely affectionate and affecting (if sometimes cutesy) husband-wife relationship...