Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lobby of the 92nd Street Y, on the affluent Upper East Side of Manhattan, a middle-aged couple stood in line last week, speculating on the motives of the political celebrity they had come to hear. "I'm telling you, he's pushing an agenda," the man said in an agitated voice. His wife calmly replied, "He's pushing his book, that's what he's pushing." The man considered her words and shook his head. "You think Newt Gingrich isn't pushing an agenda? A leopard doesn't change his spots...
Crammed into the elegant and (conveniently) parlor-like Winthrop Junior Common Room, HRDC's The Cocktail Party should be seen first and considered later. Party because actually seeing the floor-level set past twelve rows of upper-class attendees requires great skill and cunning and partly because the play is riddled with T.S. Eliot's innocuously cryptic language, no distinct message leaps forth from the play. Rather, various lines worm their way into the audience, reappearing days later as pertinent homilies for the daily personal lives of audience members...
Furious yet helpless, Lidie decides to cut her hair, disguise herself as a boy, and travel to Missouri to find Thomas' murderers. Despite the incredible danger she knows she is getting into, her good sense always keeps the upper hand. "Sentiment was a deadly thing in K.T.," she explains to the reader. "Folks back in the U.S. didn't know that about K.T., did they?" The adventures that follow, including an attempted escape north with a woman in slavery, are told with such honest simplicity that to try and recount them here would be to extinguish the spark they carry...
...once, Radcliffe has the upper hand: the lease agreement reveals President Linda S. Wilson's potential leveraging power in negotiations with the University over Radcliffe's future status...
...Crimson battle eight errors and rough starts from sophomore Rich Linden and senior John Wells before getting late-inning heroics form some upper-classman stalwarts in the batting order...