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...design of the show, while appropriate and functional, offers little additional insight into the characters or their actions. A notable exception arises in Blanche's lapses into reminiscence, where the music she danced to long ago clashes with the background honky-tonk, creating a cacophony to echo the disturbance within her mind. Though the relative visual simplicity of the piece is important to the text, shifting boundaries between realism and magic--pantomimed doors and cloth walls give way to warped floorboards and battered furniture--is at once complimentary and disconcerting. Stella, Blanche and Stanley are crowded together into a tiny...

Author: By Matthew Hudson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Kindness of Strangers, Southern Style | 8/11/2000 | See Source »

...Chain - Lindsey Buckingham/Mick Fleetwood 3. Aja - Donald Fagen/Walter Becker 4. Sleepwalk - Santo Farina/John Farina/Ann Farina 5. The Girl from Ipanema (The Lounge Lizard Song) - Jobim 6. You Belong to Me - Michael McDonald 7. Don't You (Forget About Me) - Forsey/Shiff (Simple Minds) 8. Superstitious - Stevie Wonder 9. Honky Tonk Women - Jagger/Richard 10. Free Falling - Tom Petty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All-Time Top Ten: The Readers Give Us an Earful | 7/13/2000 | See Source »

...curb. These people were obviously high rollers. But all the limousines were white. And in there was a 33 RV parked directly in the middle of the line. Garth Brooks would have been proud. This crowd had its share of card-carrying members of the American Honky-Tonk Bar Association...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Is the WWF Spectacular Theater or Total Trash? A WWF Newbie's Account | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...Saturday night, the World Wresting Alliance - they're the cheesy, third-string ones - came to the Fort Jackson Community Center for a Bob-Hope style troop show. Those who came got a bellyful of junk food and a lineup bristling with both has-beens (Honky Tonk Man, Doink the Clown, the latest incarnation of The Patriot, if you follow that sort of thing) and never-will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrestling — a Little — With My Conscience | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...Dell saga began 14 years ago in a muddy field across the street from the County Line, a Virginia Beach honky-tonk. There the police found the lifeless body of Helen Schartner, 44, a secretary. Her head had been smashed by blows from a handgun, and she had been strangled until her neck snapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sister's Plea: Test the DNA | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

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