Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doesn't necessarily need a woman in order to come of age. In The Right Stuff, the thrill and danger of flying monopolize the men's attention, a situation one wife not so subtly recognizes. " Punch a hole in the sky." Glennis Yeager (Barbara Hershey) tells husband Chuck (Sam Shepard) before he lowers himself into his cockpit. Yeager sets off and does break a record, and immediately afterwards he allows his plane to veer from its rigid course and weave through the sky, passing unusually dream-like cloud formations. The scene lacks only the requisite cigarette. It's a solo...
What's this? Rugby becoming a popular spectator as well as player sport? Here in the United States? Oh, say it ain't so, Sam...
...FREQUENT BEST, playwright Sam Shepard uses grisly explorations of family frictions and anxieties to roil up the audience in the way every good dramatist should. The Curse of the Starving Class, the last of a stark family-history trilogy, abounds in this desired therapeutic grittiness. Its characters' unpleasantness produce just the kind of irksome self-questioning and squirming that Aristotle prescribed 1500 years ago, the kind that makes going to the theater more than just entertainment. In Curse, only occasionally do Shepard, and the generally able troupe presenting it at the Loeb, stumble out of the realm of theatrical effectiveness...
Directed by Carroll Bollard Screenplay by Curtis Hanson, Sam Hamm and Richard Kletter...
...ghost of the old Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, has also risen and spoken: "Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build...