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...there are wonderful moments, too: the Doctor, clearing the sofa in one glorious leap, or running stones through his hand like shekels; his wife and daughter, peeping round the doors curiously as he speaks to visitors. But the chief strength of this production lies in its huge enthusiasm. The vigor of the cast and crew turns what might have been a turgid morality play into engaging entertainment...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Problematic Enemy of the People | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

Some of those images were, in their grotesque way, priceless: a woman staggering down the street trying not to scrape her new, no-down-payment dining room table on the pavement; another lady attempting to jam her stolen sofa onto a pickup truck already overladen with loot. Modern America's great guiding principle, shop till you drop, was in process of revision; steal till you kneel was more like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How TV Failed to Get the Real Picture | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...friends come here, I have a sofa that is permanent to [my friends'] use," says Petschek...

Author: By Radi M. Annab, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Living on the Edge | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...series of quiet visits, without the press, to communities like East Lansing, Mich., and Kansas City, Mo., and Geneva, N.Y., and Anaheim, Calif.? He could stay up late drinking coffee with a family or two and listening to their problems, and then go to sleep on the foldout sofa in the living room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voters Are Mad as Hell | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

Shirley, a ninth grader at Cambridge's Matignon High School, pointed to the cracked wall by her living room sofa, as she complained of the cold temperature in the room. Her mother, Marie, appeared in the doorway buttoning her coat, and slipped out of the door after delivering some last remarks in Haitian Creole...

Author: By Alessandra M. Galloni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Immigrants Complain | 2/4/1992 | See Source »

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