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...production itself is any indication--that it is played outdoors, is full of improvisation and divergence from the script, and uses only 12 players to play 61 different parts. There is no backstage, and the single-layer costumes are simply thrown over the players' standard attire of sweat pants, sneakers and colorful tunics...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Medieval Madness | 5/5/1986 | See Source »

Most movies about low-life Americana condescend to their subject with lots of sweat, foul patter, fat ladies and idiot giggling. This lurid and intermittently seductive melodrama (based on a true story) just observes Brad Sr. and his mob dispassionately, like slime mold under a microscope. They execute their robberies, and their victims, with soulless professionalism; their gangster grimaces register starkness without sexiness. Brad Jr. and his pals are hardly more exemplary. Talking tough, swigging beer, waiting for something bad to happen, they could be the Whitewood Gang in embryo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Is This the Family Gun, Dad? At Close Range | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...student activities undertaken by the remaining (presumably serious) students at this university. He rests on the unspoken truism that sports do little to enrich the spectator because they do not stimulate the mind. It is very hard to successfully argue the merits of football against ballet, hockey against drama, sweat against culture. I will not attempt to compare a wrestling match to a pas de deux, but I would submit that one who views either activity receives equal parts of intellectual and visceral stimulation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Detracting From Athletes' Reputation | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...sections, I always give them functional names of my own. Therefore, as I sit in a room listening to The Angry Young Man assail Chekhov's validity as a dramatist, I find myself avoiding the unsettling gaze of Morticia, surveying the impressive dimensions of the Snufalopagus in her sweat suit, and looking wistfully at the pale, frail features of the Pardoner...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: A Section in Hell | 3/18/1986 | See Source »

...Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, say that the AIDS virus can be transmitted through blood transfusions and sexual contact. While no cases of AIDS resulting from casual contact have been documented, doctors are still exploring the possibility that the disease can be transmitted through saliva, tears, and sweat...

Author: By Evan M. Supcoff, | Title: THE AIDS THREAT | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

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