Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disgustingly perfect home (constructed with aggravating blandness--lemon yellow sofa draping and all--by stage designer Jeff Gardiner) pouring drinks for one another and speaking in formal semi-monotones. They love each other, or so they claim, but their marriage is sexless. It is only when they meet in secret during the day, Barlow disguised as a rogue lover and Marie playing the part of the adulterous housewife, that they can be passionate. Pinter's play is a profound statement on the carefully constructed lies that often pass for love, and unfortunately Fran Weinberg's direction seems to miss many...
...became impossible for the band to get ice time at Brighton Hockey center, the Harvard and Yale bands engaged in an annual 2 a.m. hockey game. Two minutes before the end of one now-historic game, the Harvard side was down by several goals. Finally, they sent out their secret weapon: a band members who also started for the hockey team...
Despite a potential conflict in style, Everett stuck with the band, and in the process became "the Band's supreme protector and secret weapon," according to Goulet...
...remains weak due to Budnitz's style problems. She writes, "I did not tell her about the egg. I should have flung it away when I ran, but I had been too frightened to think. So I kept it in my pocket, told no one; it was my first secret." The unyielding and unnecessary simplification of language appears forced. The symbolism, like the egg, appears artificial, and Ilana's stories of women without feet and goblins in the woods reek of a paternalistic treatment of the intangible folklore past of the "Old Country...
...research executive at Brown and Williamson, a tobacco company; he is wrongfully fired from his job and is soon courted by Lowell Bergman, a "60 Minutes" producer, about a possible tobacco-related story. Wigand is the highest-ranking tobacco insider to ever step forward; he knows every dirty little secret about what exactly companies put into cigarettes, and it's not pretty. Dogged by a confidentiality contract, Wigand is at first reluctant to talk; Bergman coaxes him into talking to "60 Minutes," in the interest of the health of the American people, and Wigand finally agrees...