Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SITTING ON a wooden bench outside a T station the other day. Like most wooden benches outside T stations (those monolithic expressions of suburban alienation) this one was spattered with graffiti. I've always liked graffiti, particularly in the carrels in Lamont when I've got a final the next morning. So I passed my wait by reading the graffiti on this particular bench...
Originally from posh, suburban Brookline, Mass., Stone came to Harvard, Kirkland House and the Owl Club from Milton Academy. Since graduating with a degree in economics, Stone has hit it big in the shipping industry. He is currently head of New York-based West India Shipping Inc., and before that ran States Marine Lines, which owns and operates a fleet of cargo ships...
Perhaps Whitemore, who has written works for both stage and screen, has gotten the two genres confused. The premise of Pack of Lies could have created an excellent IV movie. An inspector from Scotland Yard, a Mr. Stewart (Patrick McGoohan), asks a suburban London couple if they might lend their upper floor for a bit of police surveillance work. Bob Jackson (George N. Martin) is willing to defer to the authority of Her Majesty's Representative, but his wife Barbara (Rosemary Harris) is not so sure...
...play unfolds within the Jackson's small suburban home, for which set designer Ralph Koltai has designed a cutaway view--with one glaring error. The top floor is only visible to the left hand side of the theater's seats. Granted, no significant action takes place up there, but if you're going to the expense to build a multi-level set, you might as well let all of the audience...
...Connor (as a milder Archie Bunker) or Fields (in a part that cries out for an actor with the implosive intensity of a Sean Penn) to commandeer the spotlight. But Home Front is Sternhagen's show, allowing her to nail down, with an increasingly desperate comic urgency, the suburban matriarch. This mom will not be accused of screaming at her children: "I was using my loud voice." Instead she will display a compulsion for propriety at all costs. "Let's not talk about it any more," she exclaims. "It's a holiday!" And on holiday, Sternhagen's trill ascends...