Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are no studies which fail to show relationship between the two--cigarette smokers have more lung cancer than non-smokers. The more they smoke, the greater their risk of getting this serious disease...
...appropriately lazy cloud of smoke circled the room. It wasn't a large room, and so it was crowded, in a disorganized way. Most of the smoke rose from clusters around the three chess boards; most of the conversation seemed to come from a corner where two students were besieged by a crowd of eager gestures...
...necessary is open to some question. Lyric presents one of Tennessee Williams' great plays, with a fine female lead performance. For the rest, the production is semi-professional, in the sense that only half the cast performs with much competence. Given a bit of amateurish inadequacy, however, Summer and Smoke can be enjoyable to those who just want to see a good Williams play or to those who admire a good single performance in the midst of discouraging surroundings...
...women in Summer and Smoke are on the whole competent, but the men are lame, and the result is a limping pace. The superiority of the women is partially because Williams' hysterical females are naturally rich roles. Alma Winemiller, the sexually-repressed daughter of a prurient minister, is certainly a ready-made vehicle for fine acting, and Georgia Boyko fills the part admirably. Simultaneously repulsing and desiring the advances of young Dr. John Buchanan, Miss Boyko portrays her hysteria with a certain delicacy and restraint which make her character both distinctive and convincing. When she is severe with her mother...
...smoothly. The musical background is occasionally appropriate--most of it is urgent and discordant, indicating psychological collapse, but clashing stridently with the Southern scene. The set, however, is good enough, and with Miss Boyko upon it, it becomes superb. For her, and her alone, Summer and Smoke is a modest triumph: if she does not get her man, at least she overshadows...