Word: trained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...words, a mimed gesture, perhaps some sound effects (a boy blowing a train whistle, a man whinnying like a horse) suffice to define the space and locate the scene. With a minimum of identifying costume, actors shift character: when the young lovers (Daniel Nathan Spector and Louise Roberts) have a first tentative date at a soda fountain, Holbrook abruptly becomes the attendant who serves them. As Wilder points up through risible "lectures" about this archetypal town's economy, politics, demographics and even geology, what matters about its people is not the naturalistic detail but the philosophic essence...
...weeks later he sexually assaulted a four-year-old girl. The parents of both children joined in suing the Pacific Bell telephone company for $10 million, charging that dial-a-porn was responsible. "The phone company and the pornographers took away from us our rights as parents to train our child in what is right and wrong," says Brian's father Ronald Thompson. "You can't police your kids 24 hours a day." Last week a judge declined to shut down the services pending a trial, but the state public-utilities commission ordered the phone company to block such calls...
...step off the train in New Jersey where my mother is waiting on the platform. She says, "Honey, you're leaning a little to the right--and why are you holding your arm up like that...
...comedies are cynical. The Secret of My Success got Michael J. Fox into bed with his uncle's wife to help advance his career. The Witches of Eastwick sent Satan to defeat at the caressing hands of three ravishing feminists. This week's predictable hit, Throw Momma from the Train, is a jolly farce about matricide...
Putting together a live revue that is water- and toast-proof takes hours of work, says Mariann Diedrich, director of the Harvard Square performances. "When someone says they want to be in the cast, we first have to find their part, then train them, and then coordinate them with the rest of the show," Diedrich says. "There is a lot of planning and a lot of work...