Word: boundless
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Provost has staged this production in the intimate Holmes Living Room at North House, creating a disturbingly homey atmosphere. His unusual mix of a formal stage with a boundless theatre-in-the-round sweeps his audience into the midst of the play's action. You can't help feeling that you are somehow participating in a sadistic scene--relegated to the ineffectual position of a voyeur. This is not a comfortable role to play, and A Nite-Lite is far from a comfortable theatrical experience...
...many Americans, the Boesky case seemed to symbolize boundless avarice on Wall Street. Boesky's declared specialty was the high-return game known as risk arbitrage, which involves buying and selling stocks in companies that appear on the verge of being taken over by others. In little more than a decade, Boesky parlayed that arcane activity into an estimated net worth of at least $200 million...
...single-minded dedication to winning; and his uncle Ted's occasional inarticulateness, mitigated by only a touch of the bemused self-awareness that was part of the wit and style of his late uncle the President. But the Kennedy trait that carries Joe is the physical charisma and boundless (albeit often unfocused) energy that have become a family trademark...
...pivotal roles, recasting reduces the pain and power of the play. Michael Siberry, blond and robust, plays Nicholas as one of nature's optimists, buoyant with pride and hope. The dark, hollowed look and manner of the original Nicholas, Roger Rees, better suggested the character's boundless disillusionment. As Nicholas' battered Dotheboys friend Smike, David Threlfall was recognizably a victim of cerebral palsy, lame and inarticulate, whose great soul struggled to overcome his infirmities. His successor, John Lynch, skitters and jibbers in an otherworldly fashion that never resembles any sympathy-evoking affliction...
Like the rest of the population, the Baby Boomers, particularly the younger ones, voted heavily for Ronald Reagan. It may seem peculiar that the Now generation went for a 73-year-old conservative. But Reagan said what they wanted to hear: boundless opportunity is theirs for the taking. To a generation pinched by high inflation and low wages in the '70s, the President's feel-good message was reassuring. Walter Mondale, on the other hand, came across to many Baby Boomers as the very sort of old-style, special- interest-pandering politician they distrusted...