Word: stowaway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such supporting actor is sophomore BJ "Brian" Averell in the role of Bela Zangler, the illustrious Hungarian owner of The Zangler Follies in New York City. While Averell has become a minor celebrity after his recent stowaway escapade, he was clearly meant to play Bela, with his slapstick antics and comic walk and accent. The sub-plot of Bela and Tess' love affair adds more fuel to the comic fire of Crazy...
...balloon descended to 10,000 ft., so that Piccard could chip away at ice that had formed on the cables and the capsule. There were few surprises, and the only irritant was a mysterious buzzing in the cabin. On Day 5, Piccard located--and dispatched--its source: a stowaway mosquito...
Sony America considered that bad English and changed it to Soundabout for the U.S., Freestyle for Sweden and Stowaway for Britain. Morita was leery of using a different name for each country, and when sales were less than rewarding, he changed the name universally to Sony Walkman. Subsequently, the Walkman was a worldwide hit that is now featured in major dictionaries...
...planets across the zodiac. There are those who assume that they carry, somewhere inside of them, a thing called the unconscious. It is mostly invisible, although it can furtively be glimpsed in dreams and heard in slips of the tongue. But the unconscious is not a passive stowaway on the voyage of life; it has the power to make its hosts feel very sad or behave in strange, self-destructive ways. When that happens, one recourse is to go to the office of a specially trained healer, lie down on a couch and start talking...
Director T.J. Mitchell has done an excellent job in staging this production, elegantly integrating the stairways and contours of the Leverett space. However, a few touches do not work as well as they ought. People clamber in and out of the crates used in the stowaway scenes on the boat to England in such an easy manner that it is all too obvious they have a fake side facing the stage entrances. And the theatrical use of fake blood in the "deaths" toward the end of the play appears contrived...