Word: seers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...class people are enhancing dull lives with a homemade role- playing game a la Dungeons & Dragons. They speak pseudo Old English mingled with gobbledygook as their revealing fantasy characters -- a woman warrior for a young lesbian, a lizard with strange powers for a pimply computer nerd, a wise old seer for a tedious teacher and a princess who speaks in tongues for his faded, flustered wife -- obsess about visions and quests. By the end, two of the four are certifiably mad, and the other two are silently miserable. The cause of their downfall is the very thing most people would...
...need to be a seer to predict one of tonight's top stories on TV. Come hell or high water, there will be a segment on the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan...
Some major talent is squandered on this intermittently congenial exercise, and the biggest name, four-time Emmy winner Nancy Marchand (Lou Grant), very nearly redeems the event. In the first piece she is the pseudo seer, caked in makeup and swathed in fading Gypsy finery but maintaining an inner core of steely rage. Her climactic revelations, hokey on the page, sound torn from the depths of a great and dangerous soul. She has less to do in Black Comedy, but as a spinster liberated in the dark -- literally -- to indulge dreamy fantasies of booze and sex, she melds exquisite comic...
...FORTUNE-TELLERS by Lloyd Alexander, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (Dutton; $15). In Cameroon a young carpenter consults the town fortune- teller. "You're going to pay me a nice fee," the seer predicts. What he doesn't foresee is that the laborer will end up as the town fortune-teller. This ingenious adventure suggests the magic of the Arabian Nights...
...were in a variety of exhausted poses, and lines of argument reached me from all directions: "And I'm saying the anti-incumbency factor has overridden, right, like, completely removed coattails from the Clinton surge...how can they say that Cuomo is worse than Clinton. The man is a seer, he is just the greatest...And our chart shows that white protestants with 2.4 kids and severe dyspepsia...So what are you doing on Friday night?...I've always loved you, you know that. Always...