Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quite. The traders here talk mostly in verse: "That's $80 million on his initial three. And that's from taking a risk instead of a fee." The setting is a stage, and quips fly as fast as stock tips. Serious Money, a new play by Britain's Caryl Churchill, opened last week at Manhattan's Public Theater. The comedy is already a critical and popular smash in London's West End, where it has played to sellout audiences since July. Written as a bawdy, irreverent look at the greed that, in Churchill's view, has permeated London's financial...
...except by other ninnies in their 40s and 50s, who, like him, through no fault of their own, have been handed control of the world. Control of the world? What a snap! It's control of oneself that takes real skill. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year's. An entire stage of life compressed into a symbolic five-week journey of light and dark, crying and singing. And here comes Captain Midlife, dopey as the day is short, hollering orders into the gale, hailing other captains as they pass one another in the night, captains of industry, of law, of medicine...
...stage has been set for a cool but correct meeting between the two women in Washington this week. Last month Mrs. Reagan invited Mrs. Gorbachev to a White House tea at 3:30 on Wednesday. After a two-week delay, Raisa finally accepted, then said she would prefer to visit Nancy in the morning so that she could attend an afternoon meeting between Gorbachev and U.S. journalists. Tea? Before noon? Nancy was incensed. Nevertheless, she agreed to meet with Raisa at 11:30 Wednesday morning. "It's a coffee now," sniffed a White House official, "and a tour...
Certainly, the study of Intimacy and Sexuality is a relatively recent phenomenon. At the dawn of history men and women were completely ignorant of intimacy therapy and safe sex techniques. In fact, scientists speculate that man in this early stage relied on primitive grunts and groans to express his uncertainties about his sexual identity. Lubricants were as yet undreamed...
Professional actor Perry Morton, who began playing Dr. Frank-n-furter in the flesh when he was 12, says playing in a Rocky Horror revue is more than just another role. "People get really wrapped up into it," he explains. "I went through a stage a few years ago when I dressed up as Frank every day for six months. Even today, sometimes I'll use Frank as a defense mechanism. I'll never be able to get my life away from...