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...list of subjects he considered off limits. Some seemed frivolous: "All parts for Marlon Brando." Others contained a mix of irony and rue. The author would shy away from explicit scenes of sexual commerce: "How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives as if -- jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts -- we were describing the changing of a flat tire?" He would disdain alcoholics: "Out they go, male and female, all the lushes; they throw so little true light on the way we live." And homosexuals were to have no place in his pages: "Isn't it time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jack, Wrench, Hubcap, and Nuts: The intimate journals of John Cheever are full of conflicts about marriage, writing, drinking and sex | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...middle aged woman (Thompson) about to embark on her first blind date since her divorce is funny and touching. In the second act is "Honeypot," a hilarious satire of the ridiculous sexual innuendo prevalent in early blues. Harad beautifully belts out lines such as "Put your monkey wrench in my sugar bowl," while Salie, as the disapproving psychiatrist, glowers. Even if one scene fails to entertain, no skit last longer than four or five minutes. The show is nothing if not fast-moving...

Author: By Elijah T. Siegler, | Title: Ex Show Safe but Satisfying | 11/2/1990 | See Source »

...complicate matters, Harvard fundraisers may have to face still more competition as campaign delays continue. Although University officials had initially planned to kick off the new drive sometime next fall, searches for a new president and a new Faculty dean have thrown a wrench into the process...

Author: By Gregory B. Kasowski, | Title: Fundraising: New Competition | 10/10/1990 | See Source »

...Hope the Boat" --the opening chords of which are a dead ringer for those of Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat" --uses real rock violin, not just classical violin juxtaposed with a rock beat. And in "Overflow," Herlihy plays the socket wrench, with intriguing results...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: On the Fringes of Pop With O-Positive | 8/17/1990 | See Source »

...heroine enters to save the day. Michelle Pfeiffer stumbles in, three hours late, with broken shoes and a mouthful of chewing gum. She is Suzie Diamond, an entrancing former employee of the Triple A Escort Service. Tired of being the glittering wrist ornament of shoe vendors and lug-wrench magnates, Suzie hopes a nightclub microphone can lead her to a better life...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Torch Song Trio | 10/13/1989 | See Source »

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