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Dates: during 1990-1990
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This neurotic energy undermines the various dramatic moments of the play. Tense and serious moments are delivered with the same frenetic energy as humorous ones. At one point Bobby, as fed up with Rob's hackneyed moralizing and witless witticisms as we are, goes on a rampage in which he brings the play's quick pace to a grinding halt--at least it reads this way in the text. Yet Rainey delivers the speech with the same monochromatic, sugar-high intensity that characterizes most of Bobby's delivery. The result is an indeterminate dramatic haze that kills moments of potential...
This problem of dramatic tension and variation is complicated by the fact that this play treats itself with frank absurdity and insouciance. As Rob remarks at one point, "Even when something happens here, nothing happens." The text seems to strive for the bizarre comedy of nothingness epitomized in Waiting For Godot. In Beckett's work, though nothing happens, the audience is satisfied and even amused. But these characters lack the magnetism and originality of a Vladimir or an Estragon...
Freshman year, his line capped off the season with a 12-point performance in the ECAC playoffs. In the NCAA Championship tourney two years ago, he tallied three goals and earned MVP honors...
...postfeminist era, however, women's issues are not always Topic A. Today's female comics, says Leifer, also perform "material that a man could do." A case in point is Boosler on airline absurdities, doing an Alan King staple her way: "The pilot says, 'We are currently hurtling through the air at 500 m.p.h. Please feel free to move about the cabin.' Then you land. You're rolling to the gate at 1 m.p.h. and you hear: 'You must remain seated for your own safety! Sit down!' I'm wondering, could we take off again? I need my coat from...
...slip in a few lines about something serious. But I'm not a preacher," says Latifah, a.k.a. Dana Owens. As she chants in her hit song Latifah's Law, "BMWs and gold rope chains don't impress me, won't get you closer to the point you could undress me." The name Latifah, she notes, is Arabic for delicate and sensitive. As for calling herself Queen, "it has nothing to do with rank. I believe all black people came from a long line of kings and queens that they've never really known about." The title was simply Latifah...