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...look like a character out of Dickens, keeps a flame burning constantly under his 20-gal. pots of rice, soup and beans. The New York City kitchen, which serves as many as 1,000 meals a day, is not his first such endeavor. Beacon, who calls himself the Fire Tender, says he has set up similar "temples" in other cities across the country...
...these people help themselves when all they think about is food?" asks the Fire Tender. "Give them food, and then they can put their heads and hands to work fighting misery." Although the city plans to evict Beacon from the vacant lot to build subsidized housing on the site, the Fire Tender does not intend to let his flame go out. His next temple, he says, will be in Spanish Harlem...
Yale has the league's premier goal-tender, Mike O'Neill (a first-team All-ECAC selection last year). But O'Neill can't stop every puck that comes his way. In the meantime, his offense has been camped out in the neutral zone, singing songs and toasting marshmallows...
...defiance of the "rules" of drama, Wilder kills off half a dozen characters without offering even one juicy onstage death scene, and the mourners are limited to one wordless gesture and one choked cry. Although the play appears to celebrate the tender bonds of family and community, the beauty of human connection is all but unseen: real self-awareness comes in monologue or in rueful exchanges among the shades of characters already dead. In the climax, a young woman who has died in childbirth revisits earth on the day of her twelfth birthday, only to find that her mother cannot...
...Reeves." While it is easy to make fun of ineptitude, it's quite another thing to make it sweet and touching. When Debbie and Mary can get a seen-it-all, done-it-all Greenwich Village audience on its feet, unabashedly doing the hokey-pokey and, later, singing a tender, hushed chorus of Joseph P. Webster's 1868 pop-religious hit Sweet By and By, they deserve to be proud as punch. After the performance, in fact, they even serve punch in the lobby; right to the end, the joke is on us. "One thing that we've proved tonight...