Word: blackouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This winter the number of evening blackout dates has been radically increased, with no explanation...
...long as the Athletic Department is charging a fee for participation cards, it's accepting the fact that recreational users are a constituency, too. Perhaps it might find ways, through careful scheduling, to accommodate the College without so frequently banishing the rest of us. It might collect all the blackout times and dates on a single notice (something that's never been done). It might even leave copies of such a notice, regularly updated, where we could pick them up. Then we could stop pinning pencils and notebooks to our jogging shorts...
Rudnick has written a blackout comedy that moves like a 28-year-old kid on the prowl. Aided by the sprightly economy of Christopher Ashley's direction and a troupe of rubber-souled actors playing multiple roles, Rudnick lays out the panorama at double time: a game show, a Gay Pride march, a gay bashing, a taste of rough trade, a vision of Mother Teresa -- oh, yes, and a square dance. All with unfettered wit and a lot of heart. Who could ask for anything more...
...trilogy of stories, two of them directed by Lynch from scripts by Barry Gifford. A hooker (Glenne Headly) is caught in a psychological sparring match between a seedy customer and his mysterious friend; a husband (Crispin Glover) tries to rescue his bereaved wife from madness during a power blackout. The dialogue has the evocative spareness of Pinter, and Lynch's control of mood -- menacing, mesmerizing -- has never been more sure...
...Greenhouse blackout is the secondcontroversy involving the cafe since HarvardDining Services took over its management earlierthis year...