Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...himself had requested to cut off the vituperation. Result: 58-42 against confirmation, the largest negative vote in history for a Supreme Court nominee. Joining the 54 Senators who had declared their opposition to Bork were Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire and three surprises: Virginia Republican John Warner, Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn and Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, the Senate's conservative senior member...
MIDNIGHT. Buried Child, Sam Shepard. "There ain't nothing a man can't do," we're told in this Pulitzer Prize winning drama. Infanticide, self-multilation, heavy-drinking, cornhusking. One-hundred proof Halloween horror-potion. And who couldn't cuddle up to a play whose most quoted line is, "You ain't never seen a bitch eat her puppies?" Hello, my name is Sam Shepard. This is my closet. And these are my skeletons...
...three hours, Burn This is too long and digressive, but as staged by Marshall W. Mason and a splendid young cast, it wins laughter in even its unnerving moments. If the narrative is indebted to the mainstream past, the tone has a more avant-garde echo of Sam Shepard -- a border skirmish between knockabout farce and knockdown violence. Yet Playwright Lanford Wilson manages to integrate well-crafted gags, mostly for the surviving gay roommate (Lou Liberatore). He describes his friend's gaudy casket as looking "like a giant Spode soup tureen." He says to the choreographer (Joan Allen) about...
...been said that if you have seen one Sam Shepard play, you've seen them all. If that is true, then the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club production of Shepard's A Lie of the Mind is an economy-sized bargain...
...killed her. Their respective families run to their aid. On Jake's side there's his Loyal But Timid brother Frankie (Daniel Hurewitz), his Embittered sister Sally (Diane Paulus), and his Oedipally Overnurturing Mother Lorraine (Susan Schwartz). Their counterparts in Beth's family are her Vengeful brother Mike (Sam Sifton), her Death-Obsessed Hunter father Baylor (Jon Tolins), and her Fearful And Self-Deluding mother Meg (Jenny Lyn Bader...