Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TERM "Story Theatre" describes a certain type of play using imaginative improvisations, direct interchange with the audience and dialogue interspersed with songs and chants. Beginner's Luck, a new play based on the Biblical tale of King Saul and David now running at the Reality Theater in Boston, employs such an approach, but rather than adding a new dimension to the narrative, it breaks up the plot's continuity and mars some of the play's best-written scenes...
That may have been Reid's idea when he set out to write The Offering, but somewhere along the way he got lost. Instead of a powerful tale of emotional and cultural conflict, Reid has written an extraordinarily convoluted and cliche-ridden spy story, replete with stoic federal agents, femmes fatales and toothless goons with a penchant for breaking people's kneecaps (a fine old Irish revolutionary tradition). The accent is definitely on the shoot-em-up angle; and if Father O'Neill behaves less like a man of the cloth and more like a pleasantly libidinous edition of Robert...
...sets. Hosts publicized their parties with signs posted all over the hotel, and people eager to attend--or often just to grab a free can of beer from an ice-filled bathtub--wandered up and down the corridors and in the elevators, looking for rooms with tell-tale open doors...
...second match of this "tale of two teams," Mass Maritime handed Harvard a frustrating 22-19 loss as a prelude to the astonishing reversal of the Crimson's fortunes in the Southern Connecticut contest...
...times Coming Home is too ambitious for its own good. The screenplay not only spins the tale of a tragic love triangle, it also attempts to chronicle Sally's growing political radicalization and her feminist-styled friendship with another woman on base (Penelope Milford). In the film's second half, the narrative extravagance takes its toll. Contrived plot devices, including the suicide of a minor character and the sudden intrusion of malevolent FBI agents, spring up to jerk Coming Home toward its conclusion...