Word: spider
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TAPE In a misguided effort to head off waste, fraud and abuse, Congress and the Executive Branch enmesh operating personnel in endless spider webs of rules. Line-item budgets allow no flexibility in shifting money from one use to another. Two areas of one military base boasted well-maintained sidewalks, while in another area, personnel walked in mud because the base commander's budget contained money only for repairing sidewalks, not for building any. Government employees who need to travel must get approvals from many superiors and superiors' superiors, and then often have to deal with a single airline under...
...Terrence has the rhythm of life," says Chita Rivera, star of two musicals (The Rink and the current Tony winner Kiss of the Spider Woman) for which McNally wrote the books. "He's musical. He writes to the rhythm of the person. If he knows you, he'll go to the core, right down to the gut." John Tillinger, director of McNally's recent plays, sees a flowering in the veteran playwright. "In his earlier work," he says, "he wanted to write about deep feelings but felt he didn't have the right to do it. Who would have guessed...
...children reaches over and pushes up the sleeve of the teacher's shirt. Just above the right wrist is a large tattoo of a spider, the mark of a criminal. The children are afraid of him. But, says one, "at least he helped. The other teachers did nothing but wait for the aid shipments, then steal the food and go home...
Terrence McNally, the playwright of this austerely sentimental journey, is a longtime toiler in the vineyards of the theater who increasingly finds himself the height of hot. His libretto for the Broadway musical Kiss of the Spider Woman won a shower of awards including a Tony; his AIDS teleplay, Andre's Mother, won an Emmy; his domestic tragicomedy, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, has been a hit on both coasts, and Frankie and Johnny became a movie with Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer. In his early hits Next and The Ritz, McNally revealed his fevered comic sense, satiric wit, robust skepticism...
This season's best musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman, merges a homoerotic love story with homage to bygone movies viewed from a campy gay perspective. The season's ablest comedy, The Sisters Rosensweig, sympathetically portrays a bisexual man who romances one of the title siblings, then leaves her because he prefers men. The season's foremost drama, Angels in America, which opened last week to thunderous and deserved acclaim, positions the gay experience at the center of America's political and spiritual identity...