Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebration of the 100th renewal of the Harvard-Yale football game, a touch football tournament will take place the day before among past members of varsity football teams at each school...
...surprisingly, the Boston production attracts an audience composed mostly of middle-aged couples who attended Lehrer's concerts and bought his albums in their college days, and college students who discovered in Lehrer a blend of Monty Python and Mark Russell with a touch of Russell Baker mixed in and set to music. They already know all the lines, and when one of the more heinous puns draws a few hisses, it is reminiscent of a rowdy Sanders Theatre audience...
...Emma (Molly White) the younger of the two gawky adolescents, is having her first period, as the mother constantly reminds father and brother to excuse her behavior. Wesley (Steven Gutwillig), her brother, urinates on a heap of Emma's painstakingly drawn posters. Shepard isn't one for the soft touch. His intention is obvious and a bit clumsy--to elicit from the audience the same plaintive reaction Emma has to Wesley: "What kind of family is this, anyway...
...good periods and his bad as the disease runs its course. Last month officials at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Fla., pronounced him "well enough to walk," and spent three weeks looking for an extended-care facility that could handle his needs. They could find none. Finally, Shands got in touch with the AIDS/KS Foundation, a private group in San Francisco that helps those with the affliction. On Oct. 4, Shands paid for flying MacDonald, accompanied by a doctor and two social workers, to San Francisco aboard a chartered air ambulance. But when he arrived, MacDonald was so weak that...
...Falstaff s touch, too, for the imposing phrase of self-deprecation: "Acting," he said in 1946, "is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing." Like so many luminaries of his generation, he viewed acting as a job from which one should never take a vacation; in 63 years he appeared in more than 180 stage productions, 62 movies and at least a score of TV plays. Through his early years he was the middle-class Everyman, shuffling toward archetype with good will and capacious common sense. But as he aged, his characters turned imperious...