Word: sailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CALLED FRENCH ABORTION PILL, would probably sail through the persnickety approval process at the Food and Drug Administration -- if someone would put in an application. The drug has few side effects, is safer than surgical abortion, and is very effective for ending a pregnancy in the first trimester. Though RU 486 would be a big seller, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf has avoided seeking approval in the U.S. Reason: the militant antiabortion movement, which had supporters in Presidents Reagan and Bush...
...heavy-handed direction and the flimsy acting. The play is set in a house which pretends to be a ship--a ship waiting to run itself aground because no one is willing or able to navigate it. The lush blue lighting falls on a mast with a furled sail, a writing desk bearing a huge ship's wheel and a coil of rope...
...summer, millionaires come here to stay at their summer homes, sail their yachts around Lake Michigan, and play golf at the Grand Traverse Resort, with an award-winning course designed by Jack Nicklaus...
...BOTTOM LINE: Glass and crew set sail through uncharted waters but never quite reach the promised land...
...production design by Maria Bjornson gives added nuance to the music and the acting. The set transports us to another world. We sail to the Phantom's lair with Christine and feel the ominous pressures of the darkness seeping out of the Phantom. The New Year's Eve masquerade in Act Two, is reminiscent of Poe's "Masque of the Red Death." The Phantom, clad in an angry, bloody red, exacts a shaken silence from the revelers. Like the plague in Poe's tale, the Phantom lurks at every twist and turn...