Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stuck in gridlock. Tintypes has been nimbly and stylishly conceived by the trio of creators, who also serve as choreographer, pianist-conductor and director. Doing skits as well as songs, the five-member cast is in perpetuum mobile. Carolyn Mignini, as Anna Held, is a seraphic soprano; Mary Catherine Wright, militancy incarnate as Emma Goldman; and Trey Wilson makes a bully "T.R." And in a gentle zephyr of a show, Lynne Thigpen is a bracing typhoon belter...
...Neill survived with only token opposition. But Majority Leader Jim Wright, who has spent 25 years in Congress and aspires to succeed the Speaker when O'Neill retires, barely beat back a stern challenge in Fort Worth from conservative Republican Jim Bradshaw, who was strongly backed by some wealthy oilmen. But the third man in the Democratic hierarchy, Whip John Brademas, 53, of Indiana, lost his bid for a twelfth term to Businessman John Hiler. The attractive, young (27), conservative Hiler convinced the voters of his district, which includes South Bend, that Brademas, because of his leadership position...
...Superman has become a homosexual cripple. Reeve gives his role the old college try-fervent amateurism. Ken's lover is Jed (Jeff Daniels), a horticulture nut. Ken's sister June (Joyce Reehling) has sedated her radicalism with bread baking, and her 13-year-old daughter (Amy Wright) is stoned on sexual voyeurism...
Both House Speaker Tip O'Neill (D-Mass.) and House Majority leader Jim Wright (D-Tex.) easily weathered the Republican hurricane. In a tough, uphill battle liberal spiritual leader Rep. Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.), chairman of the House Interior Committee, surprised the grave-watchers and won by an almost two-to-one margin...
Semi-cease-fire in the South Everybody stood up, held both hands, and was waving and yelling." So said Gladys Wright, a cloth inspector at a J.P. Stevens & Co. mill in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., describing the scene last week in the local high school's auditorium. Allowed to vote as a result of a hard-fought union-management agreement, 900 Stevens employees unanimously approved the first collective-bargaining contract between the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union and the nation's No. 2 textile maker, which has led labor's enemies list for nearly two decades. Stevens...