Word: tryst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acting front, Reid Shelton gives Warbucks an unparched humanity. Without Alpo to lure him on, Sandy proves an artful trouper even if he doesn't say "Arf." Since Annie is the sort of wholesome family fare audiences are always supposed to be arfing for, Broadway's latest tryst with nostalgia will doubtless turn the till at the Alvin Theater into a reasonable facsimile of the U.S. Mint. T.E.K...
...entire action of the play is set in the room that serves as the site of the lovers' annual tryst. While their surroundings-furnishings, proprietor and all-remain unaltered during the play's 24-year time span, Doris and George can hardly boast the same luck. Each finds himself trapped over time in a series of personae that represent responses to both the vicissitudes of personal experience and social and political developments in the outside world. George-originally a guilty young man who admits "I know I'm no bargain and I suspect I'm deeply neurotic" - follows a common...
ADMITTEDLY, the basic premise of Same Time, Next Year-the annual tryst-is contrived. Nor is the play as a whole devoid of serious flaws. The varying poses that the characters assume are perhaps too stereotypical, too facile a launching pad for tired television pilot jokes. The beginning of the show is especially weak; the humor is artificially imposed, and the emotional resonances that later reinforce the play's comic surfaces are mission...
Harvard athletics is a triangular tryst, between the athletes, the undergrads and the alumni. Those grand old alumns make up a large segment of the Crimson's spectating force. Harvard's proximity to Boston, where many graduates live and work, makes it easy for them to get to most of the contests...
...only 25 states made the Lovers' list; California led them all with 27 recommendations, including five four-cupid inns and hotels. The guide finds the Midwest to be a romantic wasteland, however, and Keown has special scorn for Iowa and Ohio. The only place to tryst in these states, he says, is aboard an Amtrak sleeping car, "watching the scenery, such as it is, roll...