Word: uncommonness
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Although Shapiro said a similar fire occurred about a month ago, Dinarelli said such fires are "uncommon...
FIFTEEN YEARS ago, when women at Mount Holyoke College learned to curtsy as well as to read Baudelaire, every graduating class was acutely aware of its uncommon talents and training, and seniors felt they had to choose missions in life before graduation. Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women and Others recreates that era with humor and even affection, but somewhat pedantically shows that the transition between discovering one's talents and choosing one's mission is tenuous at best...
...Uncommon Women might be considered a feminist play if it did not present such a wide range of uncommon talents and corresponding missions, including both devoted wife and ambitious career woman, as equally disastrous. The message seems not to be that women are unfairly restricted to particular roles, but it is wrong for them to have to choose any single role...
Indeed, the underlying problem of the production may be that it hits too close to home. Uncommon Women's immediacy to life at Harvard is at the same time its greatest source of interest and its greatest weakness. Both the all-female cast and much of the audience presumably face in their personal lives the same burning questions asked and answered by each character in the play: what are my uncommon talents and how can I use them after graduation? For a Harvard audience, this is a primary facet of the show's interest. For the student actresses, it creates...
...Uncommon Women is an ordinary living room, dining room and sofa. There is no stage or seats, so the audience sits on the floor amongst the actresses. In some productions, mixing actors and audience serves a legitimate theatrical value; in Uncommon Women, there is no purpose to such an arrangement. Not only is it inconvenient for the actors to climb over the audience in order to move from the living room to the dining room to the sofa, but the seating is quite uncomfortable when there is a full house...