Word: yearning
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...main thing wrong with Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Simon's affectionate memoir of those days, is that this manic style of writing, which he vividly recalls in conversation, is never really seen onstage. The play, which opened on Broadway last week, will delight Simon fans who yearn for the days when he wrote to be funny, without the poignant self-analysis that has enriched such late works as Broadway Bound and Jake's Women. For those who admire these later plays and think he found in them his great theme -- the making of a writer and the moral conundrums...
Senator Earnest Hollings railed against an episode of CBS' "Love and War" which featured a violent fight scene; he didn't realize that the show was intended as a job at Congressional concern with TV violence. The Senators seem hopelessly befuddled by the idiom of the medium that they yearn to regulate...
...There is a certain rhythm to my life," Eszterhas muses. "I'll fight for what I believe in, I'll fight for my writing. But I'll tell you, I certainly yearn for a peaceful, harmonious time." Don't bet your icepick...
...complete madness. For they all say the same: we are what we speak; our language--its metaphors, implicit value judgments--inform our personalities. Caught between the Scylla of cliche and the Charybdis of suffix, our future personalities cannot but disintegrate into a stewing pot of confusion, from which we yearn to return to the wordlessness of the womb...
Upon his sturdy 5'11", 195-pound frame, he will bear the hopes of a team and a college that yearn for victory again. Victory, after two straight years of losing to the foul foe from New Haven. Victory, after posting a lamentable 2-7 record this season...