Word: sweetness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SWEET SUE A.R. Gurney Jr.'s wry May-September romance, with each of its two characters represented by two actors, not as a gimmick but as a reflection of the underlying theme: that the real action in anyone's life takes place inside his or her own head...
Socialites who feel insecure shopping anywhere but at the most exclusive salons may want to consult the opinion of an unexpected new arbiter: U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet. Last week the Manhattan-based judge named the 55 classiest retail stores in the U.S. He compiled the list as a way of enforcing a November trademark-infringement ruling in which he prohibited the toniest U.S. stores from selling Elizabeth Taylor's new fragrance, called Passion (price: $165 per oz. of perfume). Sweet had ruled that the upper-crust marketplace already belonged to an older Passion ($270), which the French firm Annick...
Some shoppers will be startled by Sweet's roster: it fails to mention Bloomingdale's or Neiman-Marcus but includes such lesser knowns as Maas Bros. in Florida and Razook's in Connecticut...
...Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night -- Our Town is at once the most universally familiar and the most widely misunderstood. Audiences tend to recall Wilder's glimpse of small-town, turn-of-the-century New Hampshire as sweet, sentimental, nostalgic and funny. It was all those things. But it was also -- and remains, 50 years after its first public performances in January 1938 -- groundbreakingly unconventional in form and chafingly unsettling in its view of human nature. More than any other play in American literature, Our Town opened...
ADMINISTRATION: Daniel M. Rubin, Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Teresa A. Foster, Helga Halaki, Margaret G. Haudek, Katharine K. McNevin, Rafael Soto, Carrie Ross Welch...