Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wedged under a heavy corner of Adams House in the piped labyrinth of the basement there are two unmarked wooden doors. Behind them, three or four rooms wind inwards like the chambers of a shell. They are cluttered with odd implements--worn-wood museum pieces with too many handles and...
The plays were produced in combination presumably because both are "short" works about the life of college students over the course of their senior years. Each play is in fact short, in that neither merits its own intermission; however, including the break between the plays, the production is four hours...
The same, unfortunately, cannot be said for Moonchildren. Set during the '66-'67 school year, the play revolves around the lives of seven college hippies--five men and two women--living communally in an apartment in New York. The issue of the day is the Vietnam War, and the men...
Certainly, there is a case to be made for this. Honorifics are basically dead. The idea of agonizing over "Ms." seems quaint because the idea of calling anybody "Mister" or "Missus" or indeed anything other than "Hey, you" has faded away. Go into Abercrombie & Fitch, and the teenage sales clerks...
Of course, the other sort of forced familiarity occurs at The Wrap, where the cashiers take your first name during the order, as if to imply a more "personal" connection to the customer, while staring down at the register during the entire transaction. I have encountered another type of rudeness...