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Austin (Kevin Connell) is an uptight Ivy grad struggling desperately to sell his romantic "period piece" to a Hollywood producer. Lee, (Alex Norman) his older brother, is a macho, beer-guzzling thief with considerable disdain for Austin's sheltered intellectual life. When the brothers get holed up together in their mother's house, sparks fly. Insults fly. Silverware, toasters and golf clubs fly, too. By the end of Sam Shepard's True West, the kitchen is a disaster area worthy of any Harvard undergrad's living quarters. Not even the cast from Risky Business could clean up this mess before...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Too Good to be True | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

...Because of the timing, choosing a concentration is often clouded by the question of choosing a house," said Golob, former chair of the council Academics Committee. "Students get so uptight and upset about that, they don't spend enough time thinking about what in the long run is a much more significant decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Look at Concentrations | 3/3/1989 | See Source »

Clint is a shy college-type guy; Ricky is a blustering would-be stud. Rhonda is a brainy, uptight man-hater and Cheryl a misunderstood beauty who only wants to have fun. Fill in the various permutations yourself; the play ends with everybody's personality suitably adjusted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stage Door | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

...kind of bourgeois shrine. The scene could have been plausible if we had seen Annie struggle with these inconsistencies. Instead, her actions prove that the Popes are in no way different from any other middle-class family except that they occasionally make "socially aware" comments and are not uptight about...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Rebels Without a Clue | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

...until she learns that she has inherited a mansion. But the mansion is creepy, and it has a "recipe book" in the kitchen that Elvira's sinister Uncle Vincent (W. Morgan Sheppard) will go to any length to obtain. Mansion, magic book and menacing uncle are in a morally uptight, Salem-like Massachusetts town called Fallwell, run by gossipy biddy Chastity Pariah (Edie McClurg...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Wicked Good Fun | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

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