Word: ryan
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Cynthia Karslake (Pamela Lewis) and Vida Phillimore (Barbara Reid) are the gay divorcees. Cynthia has become engaged to the ex-Mr. Phillimore (Kelly Fitzpatrick), and Vida is on the prowl for the ex-Mr. Karslake (Steven Ryan). What ensues is a flirtatious game of verbal Ping Pong and musical beds. The Asolo company is at its stylish best in The New York Idea, but perhaps an extra bow should go to Pamela Lewis as a sportive Cressida of the drawing room and the racing paddock...
Hogan's Goat by William Alfred. This ten-year-old play is part ethnic memory, part ethnic lament. It evokes Irish customs and political power in the Brooklyn of 1890. In a fiery monologue, Matt Stanton (Steven Ryan), a ward boss, describes his immigrant passage across the Atlantic in midwinter. The men and women in the fetid, icy hold were like unhousebroken animals...
Melodramatic and sentimental, the play fans simple thoughts into pseudopoetic blather, but the characters, especially those played by Ryan and Costigan, are piercingly true...
...there was nothing unprecedented about Rizzo's attempt to stop the Inquirer from running columnist Desmond Ryan's piece entitled "Our Mayor Speaks" a few days before its publication. The one-page article, billed as a hypothetical interview with the mayor in the table of contents of the Inquirer's "Today Magazine," portrayed Rizzo making derogatory comments about ethnic groups and homosexuals, and parodied his style of speech. The following excerpt with translation for those unattuned to Philadelphia's politics, shows how deep Ryan plunged...
Lack of Privacy. The price of a back-to-basics dwelling is still determined by land costs and zoning regulations. Pittsburgh's Ryan Homes Inc. sells its two-bedroom Dundee model for $24,500 in Columbus, Ohio; the same house costs $40,000 in suburban Washington, D.C. In Florida, where suburban real estate is still relatively low, Deltona Corp. is building compacts (654 sq. ft. to 1,300 sq. ft.) ranging from $18,000 to $32,000 in eight different developments. Its smallest model, a one-bedroom, one-bath, air-conditioned house, sells...