Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Ballet: The company is based in the historic Wang Center, a facility grand enough to have hosted the infamous Quad-wide formal several years ago. It's worth going to the Wang just to see the building. Sometimes they also show old movies on a giant screen. But the Boston Ballet is also quite good. In addition to their traditional Christmas performance of "The Nutcracker" (which was completely overhauled last winter), they do innovative works. Last year they performed Shakespeare's comedy "Taming of the Shrew...
Campaign managers, meanwhile, just find him threatening. Brose McVey, who worked with Morris on the 1992 campaign of Indiana Senator Dan Coats, compares Morris to "a fly on a screen door--buzzin' all over the place, trying to get past the organization so he can one-on-one the candidate and cut everyone else out of the deal." McVey fired Morris during the campaign...
...screen lately, in Heat and City Hall, Pacino has grown more manic and mannerist. The finger snapping, the zany intensity of his stare and the sudden, ferocious barks are weirdly suggestive of the older, crabby, haunted Jerry Lewis. As Pacino soars into camp, one wonders: Is he a failed great actor or a great bad one? But onstage, he relaxes a bit. He knows the spectators are creating their own close-ups, so he plays piano: softer and with nuance. He gets to the tiredness of Erie and to the semisweet-chocolate heart of this frail playlet, and transforms...
...political rhetoric. Susan Molinari, in her chirpy keynote speech, sounded like a PTA president urging more money for the school gym. Even Elizabeth Dole's acclaimed "Oprah-style" turn on the convention floor was the sort of motivational-speaker gimmick that plays better in person than on the TV screen; we've seen this act in too many infomercials...
That might be one possible explanation for the explosion in sales of such wilderness products as L.L. Bean's portable "vacation home," a tent that sleeps five and includes a screen porch ($499); or the Coleman Company's "Event Center," a 40 1/2-in. collapsible bar with a 37-qt. storage compartment roomy enough for a case of Chardonnay ($29.99); or for the Starbucks-deprived, G.S.I. Outdoors' Mini-Expresso maker, which weighs in at a featherlight...