Word: waded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help the audience wade through the play's thicket of historical references is The Common Man. Part Greek Chorus, part Johnny Carson, The Common Man (Elliot Thomson) not only appears in every other scene but also has some of the best lines in the play. Donning the guise of a dozen different rogues, Thomson acts in true Rodney Dangerfield fashion, claiming he doesn't get any respect as the resident commoner. Thomson, however, has no problems gaining the audience's respect. With his sassy sarcasm and bemused wit he has the audience at his feet...
SIXTEEN years after the Roe v. Wade decision, the days of legal abortion in the U.S. are nearly over. The 1973 Supreme Court decision guaranteeing the women the right to an abortion is likely to be substantially undermined--though not reversed--by the Rehnquist court...
...Wade is in danger. Nothing else could be more encouraging to abortion's opponents. At the same time, nothing should be more disheartening to opponents than the stark realization that the pro-choice movement is winning the long-term battle for public opinion, especially among our generation--a battle which will ultimately determine how long a reversal of Roe v. Wade would survive...
...Meyerhofer says he spent days "in the famed `X-cage' in the basement of Widener, among old copies of Playboy and the works of the Marquis de Sade. I had to wade through all this pornography to find the books I needed...
...Wade Boggs does hit .400 this year, will anyone care...