Word: meanderings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most recent visit to the North End, I wandered around alone. It was one of those quintessential fall days--bright sun, red leaves, warm enough to meander through the streets for hours, but cold enough to have a twinge of pre-winter bitterness. Sometimes being alone is the best way to see a place; you can drink in everything without distractions, and you're free to imagine that you're someone or someplace else. And in this place it's easy to imagine yourself 100, 200, or even 300 years back...
...attempt to utilize effectively the space of the North House Dining Hall. director Blake Spraggins often stages scenes simultaneously on the upper and lower levels, with less than successful results. Actors meander aimlessly through the audience, pretending not to notice a love song being performed above them. The clatter of actors fumbling with props on the upper level disrupts speech on the lower level. In the final scene, most of the dialogue crucial to the resolution of the plot cannot rise above the noise of stomping feet, as the actors chase each other all over the stage...
...first scene does little to change this impression. A flock of anachronistically granola-esque maidens meander, lamenting over their unrequited love for the poet Reginald Bunthorne. In the context of a set containing an enormous portrait of Elvis, a malt-shop sign and a jukebox, these sentiments seem better suited to tenth-grade teeny-boppers than seasoned literati. Moreover, the characters' "hip" enunciation of phrases like "they're so square" mix poorly with the original "prithee's." To cap it off, Colonel Calverly's (David Magill) patter song with the dragoons, although extremely well sung, is simply neither tuneful...
...opening moments of Arthur Miller's first great play sketch a leafy backyard world as lazily enticing, and as deceptive, as the small-town dream that unfolds in the 1986 film Blue Velvet. As these neighbors in shirt sleeves slowly survey the morning, meander through a newspaper, savor a cigar, audience members cannot help longing to live in this clapboard paradise. . Until, that is, they find out what it is really like. The corruption beneath the surface in Blue Velvet is trendily psychosexual. In All My Sons it is economic and political. At the root of the play's evil...
...Ladders." Child World promotes only a few games, like "Scrabble," "Parcheesi" and "Trouble"; the first two are presented both in traditional form and in "deluxe editions." The yuppie fave "Scrabble Deluxe" features raised spaces which lock the letters in place, presumably so that your $1000 Lhasa Apso does not meander by and mess up the game. As much as I can tell, "Deluxe Parcheesi" appears to be a contradiction in terms: you could play that game with pebbles and a dirt surface, for Christ's sake. "Trouble" is apparently worthwhile because it encloses the dice in a "popomatic" dome, keeping...