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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actu'lly, th' funniest part of the show is th' costumes. I liked Weston's hobo outfit that makes him look like Emmett Kelly Jr., Wesley's jeans that sit too low in th' seat and that zip instead of button, Ella's sensible shoes with heels th' size of hockey pucks, Emma's cute little shitkickers and Ellis' golden drugstorecowboy suit. I 'specially liked what th' two thugs (Laurence Thomsen n' Eric Oleson) wear: plaid bellbottoms n' white chaps, respectively (n' the yo-yo is a nice touch, Laurence). Not too accurate--no self-respectin' Westerner would be caught...
...archetype n' th' outcome is pretty much a foregone conclusion. Since everythin' is so inevitable, Curse of the Starving Class seems, like some other Shepard plays, t' be about one act too long. But Shepard's benighted poets have a certain eloquence, n' it's worth seein' the show just t' hear some of th' crazy things they...
Thomasville is a tiny town--population 17 or 18,000--just off of U.S. Highway 85. Thomasville, and North Carolina, have sided with Ronald Reagan and the Republican Party since 1980. This year, however, the polls show that the state is far from a lock for either party, and both Republicans and Democrats are working hard to woo voters in this state--one of those which could fall in the Democrats' column this time around...
Libra was in the TV room. As she flicked on the set I saw the shadowy outline of two talking heads. "Oh, look," she said, siren-like. "PBS has a rerun of your favorite show. Want to watch...
Words may be small balm in the face of pictures showing lifeless children plucked from the Persian Gulf. But there is something disturbing when a great nation finds itself mute in the face of its own complicity in disaster. Corporations are not expected to show soul, yet immediately after the Bhopal disaster the chairman of Union Carbide took the risk of making a symbolic pilgrimage to India. Personal gestures of atonement are commonplace in other cultures: the president of Japan Air Lines resigned because 520 passengers perished in a 1985 plane crash...