Word: scars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stick to producing musicals. In trying to decry the decaying world of the modern hero by updating The Odyssey. Vonnegut chokes Happy Birthday Wands June with clamsy ploys to manipulate the audience. Broad and almost cliched themes, sheltered and stereotypical characters, and dialogue which through witty is ultimately limp scar the play. Wanda June is a playwright's mangled by better left in the closet...
...result of the defeated uprisings has left a scar on the national psyche, a kind of ambivalence and fear that endure to this day. "On the one hand," says Social Historian Wiktor Osiatynski, "the Pole applauds the drive for democratic freedoms. On the other hand, not far below the surface roils the thought that previous such efforts for national salvation have ended in catastrophe...
...Lyndon Johnson lifting his shirt to show the scar from his gallstone operation...
Laughter is no laughing matter in this play. In between one-liners and running gags, the characters on the stage of Broadway's Lyceum Theater shout and scream at one another. Their confrontations contain a sly malice, suppressed rage and maddening frustration. As comedy, Grownups is scar-tissue deep...
...Mary Beth Hurt) knows all about men ("I've had too many") but astonishingly little about herself. She rushed off to Hollywood because Old Granddaddy fostered the delusion that she could be a singing star. She became a pill-popping swinger and had a mental breakdown. The scar tissue shows in hard-boiled mannerisms and a terror of displaying "weakness...