Word: cowardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...famous McDonald's commercial, and the Baby Boomers believed it. The Depression-era work-and-scrimp ethic that drove their parents was not passed along. Inflation is at least partly to blame, says MONEY Managing Editor Landon Jones, author of Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan). Spiraling costs made savings seem futile and fostered a sensibility of buy now, pay later...
...religious nature," but his foster mother caught him stealing from her purse. "You little thief!" she cried. Genet took that as his creed: "I answered 'Yes' to every accusation made against me, no matter how unjust . . .Yes, I had to become whatever they said I was . . . I was a coward, thief, traitor, queer, whatever they...
FUNNY, IT SEEMS like yesterday when audiences viewed another comedy of manners in the Lowell JCR, last spring's production of Noel Coward's Hayfever. The Lowell House Drama society must like this sort of theater. Like Hayfever, You Never Can Tell has it's share of outrageous children, a stubborn matriarch, and romantic entanglements. But Shaw, of course, must add a touch of class conflict, feminism and a little political commentary...
...short autobiography (Knopf; $17.95) wear no masks. Along with an engaging picture of Guinness himself, there are candid and almost always hilarious portraits of some of those he has met along the way to his threescore and eleven: George Bernard Shaw, Tyrone Guthrie, Edith Evans, Martita Hunt, Noel Coward and even Ernie Kovacs, who, he says, was "just about the funniest man I have ever...
...retrospective pastiche of Herman's work, featuring Dorothy Loudon, Leslie Uggams, Chita Rivera and eight chorines, which opened on Broadway last week. It also applies to two compelling new performances in plays, both by old hands: Rosemary Harris as a coy, manipulative grande dame of the stage in Noel Coward's astringent farce Hay Fever and Uta Hagen, the original Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, as a practical and amoral urchin turned madam in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession...