Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Page's tics, fidgets and exaggerated nasalities, which have overdecorated many a characterization, here serve to heighten a shrewdly earthbound interpretation. Her Arcati is not dotty or otherworldly. She is a coarse, calculating businesswoman, a vulgar social climber, a tiresome, self-absorbed frump who just happens to be a medium with the gift of raising the dead. Her manner is so much the grasping fraud that the audience is stunned when she delivers the goods. Indeed, she is stunned herself: there are few funnier sights than Page striding across the stage in pursuit of a ghost whose presence she senses...
Despite their varied interests, the winners seem to have one quality in common: a social conscience. That trait is perhaps best summed up by Louisa Smith, a student of public policy at Harvard-Radcliffe College. Before leaving for Washington with her fellow achievers to meet Vice President George Bush, who had expressed interest in chatting with this year's winners, Smith talked about her commitment to the inmates of the prisons and mental hospitals she has been visiting since high school. "I may never solve all the problems I have seen," said Smith, "but I cannot walk away from them...
...tragedy grows from the interaction of a triangle of characters. Actually, since fate rules entirely over these people's lives, leaving then no real free will, they are less characters than social types, as their names reveal. A young man, simply called the Groom (Pier Carlo Talenti), is engaged to a young woman, the Bride (Kristen Gasser). The Bride was engaged years ago to Leonardo (Daniel Zelman), but they quarreled and broke the engagement, and Leonardo married her cousin, the Wife (Allison Brody...
EVERY YEAR at this time it is my custom to present the annual Rutger Fury "Humans on Parade" Achievement Awards. These awards are given to those college juniors who show exceptional achievement in social, political, athletic and academic spheres while not being geebs about it, or who are just cool in general...
Silber, whose announcement was a surprise to many observers, has earned a controversial reputation for his maverick stances on a range of social issues. This week abortion rights activist Bill Baird called for Silber's resignation following a televised debate between the two about "safe sex" kits...