Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Social Committee has $5000, of which $1700 is divided among the Houses and the Freshman Council to help fund campus-wide social activities on the request of the house committees...
With seven unrelated segments, the troupe tackles a wide variety of subjects, from city living to elementary school Winter Pageants to Mister Roger's neighborhood. But "tackles" isn't really the right word--the troupe seems to be having too much fun to want to hurt anything. Thus, their satire never has a cutting edge. On a bare stage, these two men and three women bound around with so much togetherness, good will and boisterousness that the place begins to resemble a positive energy seminar...
...Sporting Life" is a quick succession of aspects of the wide world of competition. In this expertly choreographed sequence, the satiric targets include the Miss America pageant, the Olympic, and ski-lift conversation. Yes, the targets are obvious and very easy, but thankfully so are the laughs...
...WITH WIDE-RANGING and incisive comments on death, co-ops, language and television packed in into a General Hospital setting, it's clear that DeLillo has found another metaphor for attacking the metaphysical clutter of modern American life. From the mysterious link between football and nuclear war in End Zone, to the ennui of Star Wars style warfare in "Human Moments in World War III," DeLillo has proved himself to be the modern American master of fear and loathing...
...those compulsives are neither long-haired hippies nor pencil-thin nerds, as stereotypes might have. Every evening at Tommy's upperclassmen in tuxes share the machines with construction workers and skateboard punks. "The people who play the games come from a really wide socio-economic and age background." says Nathaniel A. Wice '89. "But they're pretty much male...