Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When the stage was his only world, Kenneth Tynan dominated it as no drama critic since George Bernard Shaw had. When, sometime in the 1960s, the wide world was turned into a stage for celebrity posturings, the critic recast himself as a potential star, offering himself as an international social critic and sexual reformer. And became just another face in a crowd grotesquely clamoring for attention. The life his second wife, Kathleen, recounts in her uncompromising and ultimately harrowing biography-memoir becomes the record of a befuddled search for the fulfillment of youth's inordinate promise, and for the graceful...
Streetcaris a psychological drama of immense power, and Rosencranz's cast manages to bring that power to the stage. As the audience grows accustomed to the drama's Southern drawl, it begins to hear the sharp undertones of the seemingly ordinary lives on stage. Few Harvard productions could sustain audience interest for three hours, but with a stellar Stanley and provocative Blanche, the Leverett production actually gains in interest...
...plugged the show as the first-ever confrontation on the same stage between candidates of the two major parties, whetting appetites over the prospect that the candidates would be questioning each other. Did this mean there would be a Tuesday Night Main Event of Robertson vs. Jackson, with Dukakis vs. DuPont, Simon vs. Dole and Gephardt vs. Bush on the undercard...
...though the network wanted us to think so. Instead, the Democrats and Republicans twice took the stage separately for half-hour discussions on foreign and domestic policy. It must have been in the fine print of its full-page newspaper ads where the network fessed up to the fact that questions and answers would flow only among candidates of the same party...
...Mary, I don't mind if you take the other call, but I'm afraid that I am going to have to monitor the line. In this dangerous age, the practice of `Safe Phone' is imperative to mental health. I simply cannot afford the risk of ridicule in this stage of my emotional development...