Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discover that what Arnold Beckoff wants--a career, a home, a person to share it with is no different from what everyone seeks. With sharp wit and a touch of pathos. Fierstein can appeal to both gay and straight audiences as he openly reveals how similar are the problems and desires of both worlds and how the worlds are not nearly as far apart as they might superficially seem to be. Arnold is a nightclub drag queen who falls in love, loses his lover to a woman, wants to raise a child, and has to cope with a nagging Jewish...
...Pipers of Middle America, marching jauntily out front with majorities forming obediently behind. Being deserted is a frustrating experience. Reston sighed that "the people don't want to hear." Another view is that most voters decided the media heavyweights were just plain wrong. They were certainly out of touch...
From the first touch, it became apparent that most of the play would take place in the midfield, but in the Yale half of the pitch, with the Crimson looking for weaknesses to exploit in the Eli defense...
Harvard Coach Joe Restic adds that the soft-spoken Abbott "has handled the captaincy with a touch of class...
...benches beneath X-shaped projections that could be gallows or crucifixes. Beyond the stage sits the audience, who must absorb Weiss's ideas and interpret them. But the actual audience is not that far removed from the madhouse. As the inmates bang at the bars confining them, they practically touch us. Their wretched plight is ours; we are all part of one big batty family...