Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mixed emotions. (For the uninitiated, Trekkies wear Spock ears, hound the actors for autographs, and faint if they see Leonard Nimoy in person. Trekkers publish fanzines and write doctoral theses on the show, hound the writers for autographs, and sneer when they mention Trekkies.) Both species were hopeful but anxious, afraid that a film flop would ruin the memory of the series...
This is the first play by Kentuckian Marsha Norman but it is worth a trip to the Theater de Lys on Christopher St. to see how she has combined these lives into one soul. Dale Soules plays Arlene, a wiry woman locking out her past, anxious to deal with the daily pain of life in the real world without resorting to crime, without ugly language, without her old self--Arlie. Simultaneously, Julie Nesbitt carries on as Arlie, Arlene's violent past personified in this small but gutsy, foul-mouthed girl who hates authority and only loves for cash...
...place in the sort of analytic attention which Maurice Yacowar gives to Woody Allen in his new book, Loser Takes All: The Comic Art of Woody Allen. The cult of Woody Allen would be inexplicable if he didn't touch on some particular mood special to his times--the anxious defeated mood of the likeable losing neurotic. And the extent of his success would suggest that he touches on it rather in kind reassurance than in a searching or nasty spirit...
...Irak is a six-wheeled tank that is quite endearing, as war machines go. Milton Bradley's big computer action toy chirps merrily as it sets out on its rounds, plays a little tune when it is finished, and then yips five times like an anxious puppy when it is left turned on and unattended. Twenty-four glorious buttons on its carapace accomplish the programming. An eight-year-old achieves something impressive when he plans a complicated route under the dining room table to attack the cat and then translates his intentions into an orderly series of commands...
...Ecumenical Patriarchate is anxious to pursue unity in part because of its own precarious existence and dwindling flock in Turkey, which has dropped from 80,000 in 1955 to 6,000 today. The situation was poignantly clear when only 250 people (including reporters) attended last week's historic Eucharist. But Dimitrios' effort could be frustrated by Orthodoxy's largest branch, the Church of Russia, which rivals the Ecumenical Patriarchate's authority and is inhibited in any pursuit of Christian unity by the wishes of the Soviet state. To the Kremlin, Catholicism is an alien influence that...