Word: teeter
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...lights go out the audience sits back and relaxes, anticipating a witty comedy and moreof Gambuto's artfully-delivered one-liners. So begins The House of Blue Leaves, the creation of a fast-paced world of kooky reality in which laughter covers the dark edge upon which the characters teeter. The protagonist, an aspiring musician named Artie, seems real enough at the start with his pathetic late-night gigs, nagging girlfriend, and dishevelled apartment, later called "so Norman Rockwell" by a Hollywood starlet (Jordan Berkow '03). But this rough-edged and familiar American scene transitions when Bananas (Catherine Gowl...
...good old fashioned shrink. I went ahead and called University Mental Health Services only to be told by the not-so-nice receptionist that their earliest appointment wasn't for another week. How's that for rapid response? If you're ever on the brink, you only have to teeter for seven days before a University professional comes to your...
...time in the world to consider the complexities of psychology, and each story tells a truthful tale about some kind of a momentous change in interpersonal situation. The personality of each character dwells in the depths of meaning, and, even if the worlds the characters inhabit might teeter towards the fanciful, they relate to the every day of the common man with the help of Byers' unvarnished narrative skills...
...teeter down the stairs, I pass one of my male neighbors and brace myself for his reaction. But he only grins "Hello" and then averts his eyes. I know I have the body of a 12 year old boy, but shouldn't skimpy clothes cause more of a reaction than that...
...death--it was a particularly nasty case. As superintendent of the project, Kelly was directing a crane, lowering an empty bucket into the excavation site for the subway tunnel. So engrossed was he in this responsibility that he failed to notice when the 25-foot crane inexplicably began to teeter. A Cambridge patrolman shouted at Kelly to "get out of the way," but noise prevented him from hearing the warning signal. The unit toppled completely, and Kelly was buried beneath 15 tons of crane...