Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particularly ticklesome and, yes, endearingly delightful, delightfully endearing: Check out the lovely and talented CityStep's Excellent Adventure show on your return from break. Along with the perennial pleasure of seeing the token wheezing kid flailing about, the whole thing's always an underrated spectacle. Who can turn down a bunch of kids enjoying themselves while a show is going on in their midst? The feat of training and rehearsals is truly stupendous and deserves some attention. Good, clean fun without a trace of smut...
With Ruth's assistance, Lisa begins to get her stories published, and what has evolved into a comfortable, friendly working relationship takes a new turn. Though Ruth admits that she is somewhat uncomfortable with Lisa's success, the tension doesn't really bubble to the surface until Lisa writes a novel based on her teacher's life, centering around a secret affair Ruth had in her youth with the legendary poet Delmore Schwartz...
...does not provide obvious answers to the questions it raises. Writing a two-character work provides Margulies the opportunity to flesh out realistically complex personalities, and the dilemma that results from the course of their relationship has no easy solution. The play asks, who has the right to turn a person's life into fiction? Is Lisa's novel about Ruth's life an act of love or a "theft" of stories which she has no right to appropriate? The answers to these questions are further complicated by statements which Ruth makes early in the play about having a "need...
...much larger scale. Yet, the sound of this small chamber orchestra echoed off the walls and filled the audience's ears till sound waves would spill out of the building and into the air outside. Of course, their efforts were noticeable, as the brass musicians' faces were turning bright red, sweat beads were forming on the faces of the string players, and Tipler was jumping around, leaning left, leaning right, trying to urge the orchestra on as a coach, asking for more force. Quite humorously, in the last movement's finale, a page turn set up the last section into...
...awakening throws jolts her friends out of the isolated, automated, unfulfilling lives they have defaulted into. Then, one December evening just before the turn of the century, Karen's dark premonitions of millennial apocalypse vividly come true in Coupland's hypercolor prose. The six friends become the only survivors in a landscape where "endless cars and trucks and minivans sit on road shoulders harboring cargoes of rotted skeletons." In the future, all humanity has collapsed in sleepy death, money has become worthless, and the endless days are tracked only by the clock on Wendy's PowerBook. "Tennis rackets silently unstring...