Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ACTING is falsehood. Or so it is in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, in which a love-entangled quarter of theater people, so used to faking emotions on stage, cannot feel emotions off stage. They resort to biting wordplay that is done to the hilt in the polished but ultimately sterile Winthrop production...
...following scene makes clear that the opening exchange comes from a play written by Henry (Alan Thomas). Characters and relationships overlap from Stoppard's play to the plays within: Charlotte is Henry's wife and plays her on stage; Max is Henry's friend and plays Henry himself. But this fusion of life and art deadens the characters' emotions and makes them self-conscious and evasive...
...every stage in his presidential bid, Sen. Paul Simon (D-III.) has run counter to conventional political wisdom, and, sad to say, such "wisdom" may actually carry the day on Super Tuesday and the rest of the primaries that will follow...
Though much is unclear about Swaggart's prospects, the preacher wrote in his magazine last month that God had given him an important glimpse of the future through a dream vision. In it, Jimmy and Frances attend a large meeting, where an Assemblies of God stage show is being promoted with magazines that contain obscene pictures in their centerfolds. Jimmy cries out in protest but is ignored. He bows to weep, and when he looks up again, the auditorium is empty. The floor is littered with debris, which Jimmy starts to collect. When someone asks him what he is doing...
...employed salespeople, two advertising staffers from the U.S.-Japan Business News weekly newspaper, a sales representative for Singapore Airlines, and Patenaude, a therapist who specializes in massage. The group also included a father-and-son team: Carl Craig, 49, an electronics salesman, and Anthony Craig, 20, a rock musician (stage name: U.D. Quantum...