Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Footfalls, May (Karen Macdonald) calls her mother (Marianne Owen) back from the dead. Clad in flowing scarves and a long skirt, May reminisces about life before her mother's death. In the second part of this three-part development, the Voice (of May's mother) speaks for itself, and for the finale, May refutes her mother's speech. May, who later becomes Amy in a word-game switch typical of Beckett, seems to be attempting to put her mother, finally, to rest...
...denies that the turmoil affected his decision to skirt tradition when he took office in 1971. The motivation, he says, was that, at the time, he had three small children, and the construction of Pusey Library created a huge crater in the Yard...
...housing lottery maniac once described Lowell House "a place where you'll get a lot of wear out of a tuxedo or a long, black skirt. "Nowhere does the truth behind the caricature shine through so clearly as at the annual Lowell House opera. Few other music and drama societies, while putting off the most ambitious of feats, strive to emulate the Metropolitan Opera House. At the 44th Annual Lowell House Opera, by contrast, the ushers wear black velvet, the concentration of Faculty members and other non-students is high, especially on "patron night" and the sets, voices and period...
...arrested at Varennes. A few will be present when the decree ordering the royal family to return to Paris (and eventually the guillotine) is read out to them. All they will see of that historic moment will be the King's shoes and socks, the Queen's skirt swishing this way and that as they pace off their anger and frustration. For the closest the observers can get is a perch on a staircase with the eyes at the level of the royal bedroom's floorboards. That is fine. In fact, for Director Scola's purposes...
...Jenny from Lowell House, and #061, Ben from South House, introduce themselves. #1205 attired in an Annie t-shirt and a black mini-skirt says all her roommates are participating in the revelry as #061, decked in jeans and a black t-shirt, spins her violently in a circle. They soon move along, engaging in mock combat...