Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Playwright Stephen Metcalfe (Strange Snow, The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers) risks cartoonish farce in scenes between Emily and her detached, all- business father; meetings between Emily and her brittle, suicidal mother come close to soap opera. Metcalfe binds the play's kaleidoscopic moods with chatty monologues by the central character. In a role that could easily become unlikable, Madolyn Smith, best known as the star of the CBS-TV mini-series If Tomorrow Comes, enlists playgoers' sympathy from the first moment and charms them right through her final perplexed, ingratiating grin. She is so appealing, so candid and self-critical...
...single hotel in New Jersey, he and his brother Laurence built a $7 billiona-year conglomerate. Tisch's mandate at the Postal Service will be to cut costs without alienating labor or losing an edge to increasingly competitive and technologically innovative private industry. Not an easy task, never mind snow, rain, heat or gloom of night...
They had nothing in common, really, except the sport. LeMond had grown up in affluence on the California beaches and the snowy slopes of the Sierra Nevada. At 14, he took to cycling to build up his legs for skiing. But that winter it did not snow, and so an obsession was born. In the U.S., cycling is what kids do after Santa Claus brings them a bike and before they get their driver's license. Few of them are aware that the sport's greatest heroes race in teams and can make as much as a star quarterback...
...gathered media representatives were treated to a preview of the 10- foot John Harvard marionette and its creator,Cambridge sculptor Bert Snow. Snow said that his"kinetic sculpture" would be roaming through thecrowd at the floating birthday party on September3, shaking hands with members of the audience,which official estimates place at 50,000 to100,000 people...
...line of Cluniac Popes who rebuilt the entire church. They reached their apogee of power when Gregory VII marched northward in 1077 to depose the disobedient German King Henry IV by sheer willpower. His march was halted only when the humbled King knelt for three days in the snow at Canossa to plead for the Pope's forgiveness...