Word: shake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turbulent skies and shout forth a panegyric to the incipient balmy days of a more gentle season. But alas, the streets bear the scars of the ravages of snowstorms, the trees scream in their gnarled bareness, the clouds continue to obscure the fulgent sunshine. Cambridge does not easily shake the remnants of its most brutal season. We become like Gide's immoralist, neglecting our careers, our families, and our lovers in a hedonistic hearkening to a brighter clime and sunnier shore, where mind and body can relax and regenerate...
Alceste (Alec McCowen) is not a misanthrope in the sense that he hates mankind. He hates the web of social hypocrisy in which men and women entangle themselves. He hates everything that in Eliot's words is "as false as a smile and the shake of a hand." His insistence on absolute candor is blind, humorless and therefore funny. He is a moral prig who thinks of himself as the only honest man alive, and he wants the world to recognize it. He tells the truth till it hurts-others. Still, he raises an important question of principle. When...
SOMETHING IS WRONG will Shake A Legacy. It starts out fine--we see the traditional Wild West conflicts emerging immediately--the hanging judge is looking for some new sucker to don the marshall's badge, the old lawman having been gunned down shortly after the curtain rises. But then authors Christopher Harding and Robert Mack let loose a torrent of subplots including a twins mix-up a governor's race, a will succession controversy, three romances and a dead heiress masquerading as a bartender...
...have supplied a lot of witty, if often extraneous numbers, which in turn serve as vehicles for law school puns rather than conveyors for much-needed expositions. Perhaps if the writers had let the heroine of the play explain how she was the mastermind behind all the plotting then Shake A Legacy would have held together. But they didn't. And she didn't. And we are left with a very funny production that goes nowhere...
When asked if changing his name wasn't a kind of denial of his origins. Taj dismisses the idea with a shake of the head and a wave of the hand. "It all came about in a really bizarre dream that I've gone into too many times already. Right now, the East seems to fit in my mind more than the West. At the time, I thought anything would be better than Bobby, Billy, Joey, Sammy, Freddie, or Richie--all of which reduce to zilch. I never really thought about the repercussions of changing my name. And you know...