Word: ned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ned Stanton, Christy's vice-president of audit and budget, said there are 112 Christy's stores in New England, but that Massachusetts state law allows only three licenses to be held per corporation...
Harvard (18-2 overall, 6-1 Ivy) came into the match against MIT (8-8) without starters senior Albert Kim, who separated his left shoulder Tuesday night at Roger Williams, and sophomore Ned Staebler, who had a high fever...
...strong cast -- including Yaphet Kotto, Ned Beatty and Richard Belzer -- helps make the group portrait work, and Levinson (who directed the first episode) shows off his Diner talent for small talk tinged with satire. ("Dry wall," says one detective, musing about leaving police work for another job. "You put up dry wall, and you got a sense of accomplishment.") Though the hand-held camera and jump cuts seem like affectations, the show hums along smoothly and is refreshingly light on violence. Detectives who grill suspects in Homicide do it with verbal cunning, not strong-arm bullying. (Belzer...
...showiest piece and ultimately the most moving is Kramer's tussle between hope and despair in Destiny. It is enriching, but not necessary, to know that the work is autobiographical and that its passion-spent central character, Ned Weeks, is a stand-in for the author, who co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis and the more radical ACT UP only to leave each in disappointment at their failure to save lives, not least, prospectively, his own. Ned is as hilariously self-congratulatory and self-critical as he was in the Kramer play that introduced him, The Normal Heart...
...style, Destiny is everything Kramer has heretofore claimed to detest -- a nonrealistic memory play, crosscutting between the present in a high-powered AIDS clinic and Ned's childhood and adolescence in bourgeois-Jewish suburban Washington. The guilt he endures, the abuse, the rejection by even well- meaning relatives -- above all the preposterous but persistent demand by his parents that he lead the life they envisioned -- are all part of almost any gay adult's personal legacy. If not always richly detailed in the writing, the moments are staged by Marshall Mason with unusual power. As the younger Ned, John Cameron...