Word: usual
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest black. All classes (except rich kids), all ages (17-28), all parts of the country, from the Bronx to North Dakota to Southern California. Some smart kids, most who didn't have "school" but wanted it, some who'd gone there and dropped out for all the usual follies...
...always, the divers have chimed in with their usual excellence...
...traditional menu of turkey, cranberry sauce and squash will replace the usual Thursday dinner at Mather House, the only House whose dining hall will stay open for Thanksgiving...
...employee, not the usual two, tends to the salad bar. Only one cleans up Quincy's 50 tables after closing time during the week--and on weekends, staff say no one does it. General service staff count on the checker to help move food on the hot line. Even the manager can sometimes be seen cooking in the kitchen...
...romance, never for an instant by the director, the actors, the scenic designer or the least-sung usher in the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia." I can't vouch for the ushers at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City, who are no less surly than usual, but mostly this Broadway revival gets into the right spirit. The set, a swath of brown prairie dominated by an expanse of blue sky, seems ready at any moment to disgorge the cast of Oklahoma!, and the story of a smooth-talking drifter named Starbuck who comes to a drought-plagued Western community...