Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shamie, the head of the Massachusetts Republican Party, took the stage about half an hour after Bush achieved the 270 electoral votes needed to win the election and said the state's Republicans would look to take control of the governor's seat...
Democratic vice presidential candidate Lloyd M. Bentsen appeared on stage in Texas with a caged quail--an obvious dig at his Republican rival, Dan Quayle...
Fish got to swim, birds got to fly: the best composers will always write seriously, even when they are frankly dressing their tunes for success. The move from Broadway to opera house -- from quotidian show to stage classic, in other words -- is well under way. The only difference is that now people are finally catching...
...letter, and the judgment, while hardly modest, still seems incontrovertible 35 years after his death and a century after his birth. As a young playwright, O'Neill inherited a theater tradition that was principally a frame for gaslighted frivolities. By the time he got through with it, the U.S. stage had become electric, and had learned to accommodate native-grown murder, madness, alcoholism, dark sexuality and the howling tensions of family life. Opening the curtain on such subjects might not have seemed the surest path to public success, yet O'Neill was one of the most admired and honored writers...
...centenary, the playwright' s letters reveal that despite his revolutionary achievements, he grew disenchanted with the stage. -- An expose of the Hare Krishna movement...