Word: warrener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nothing," says Ann Wacker, a Cabot House associate and wife of UHS director Dr. Warren Wacker...
...Friday--The American Heart Association names Fidel Castro its first annual Man of the Year. "We're delighted that such an important leader has set an example for the world's youth by kicking the filthy cigar habit," says a spokesman. Director of University Health Services Warren E.C. Wacker comments, "What a bunch of dildoes." "They'll never get their hands on my pipe!" vows Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom...
...hands: Rosemary Harris as a coy, manipulative grande dame of the stage in Noel Coward's astringent farce Hay Fever and Uta Hagen, the original Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, as a practical and amoral urchin turned madam in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession...
Charm, ingratiation and candid confession of past sins are also part of the persuasive skills of the title character in Mrs. Warren's Profession, a woman who has everything she wants except the respect of her newly adult daughter. Born in poverty but blessed with good looks and a raffish appeal, Kitty Warren went into prostitution and then brothel keeping. She proved to have a genius for recruiting talent and earning a steep profit, and grew to love the challenges of being a businesswoman. The role, the best Shaw ever wrote for a woman, centers on the scenes in which...
Hagen, 66, an actress's actress and a renowned teacher who is too infrequently seen in major productions, is really too old for the vibrantly sensual, fiftyish Warren. But she handles the confrontations stunningly. In the most striking moment, she wheels on her daughter, drops her posh accent and snarls a question in the gutter Cockney she spoke as a girl, revealing a whole lost life in the intonation of a few syllables. Outsize in energy but subtle in her thinking, Hagen remains among the strongest single forces on the American stage...