Word: revisited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...free of the world-weary, elegiac tone of the four slight one-acts that had been Miller's sole stage output in the previous decade. At 76, the playwright has recaptured the vigorous voice and zest of middle age and has found a fresh, indeed engagingly oddball, way to revisit his accustomed theme of how to assess rugged individualism -- as personal integrity or as social irresponsibility. Only one fact jars: this world premiere is delighting audiences not on Broadway but in London's West End. Says Miller: "They have a theater culture here in Britain. I don't think...
America is still too young to have convincing ruins. Instead of admiring the tumbled stones of their former civilizations, Americans can only return to their memorable fiascoes, where they can weep and think of Ozymandias, king of kings. They can revisit Watergate and Vietnam, for example, or penetrate to the remoter pageants of McCarthyism or the stock-market crash of 1929. Poking around in the remnants of disaster can tell you where you have been and what you have been capable...
...bill to revamp the savings-and-loan bailout agency, the Resolution Trust Corporation, even though he is not a member of the Banking Committee. "Kerrey should have known better," says a House Republican. "With five members under investigation in the Keating scandal, the Senate isn't about to revisit the S&L scandal in an election year...
...weekly talk show debuts on cable in December with a novel solution to the perennial problem of finding good guests: there won't be any, just Mason schmoozing for half an hour. And this week Mason returns to Broadway with an all-new monologue that is bound to revisit such accustomed topics as sex, politics and Mason's all but patented specialty, the undeclared cultural clash between Christians and Jews. All in all, Mason seems to be enacting a phrase from the subtitle of his book: How to Get Everything You Ever Wanted Through Pure Chutzpah...
...Maher gives those few dedicated fans who attend the games their money's worth. While the cornfields of Iowa may be a place to revisit the past and relive the days of the great Shoeless Joe, the freshman from the Hawkeye state has turned Briggs Cage into her own field of dreams...