Word: primness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Harlem. It brings together a moneyed sophisticate, black in parentage but not in apparent culture, and the down-home, ethnic- talking show girl he has yearned for but lost track of since a chance encounter years earlier. They meet as he is on the verge of marrying the prim, domineering daughter of a minister. Most of the action arises from the show girl's I Love Lucy-esque contrivances to get her man. The side plot, about Prohibition and a nightclub's hidden supply of booze, is even sillier. Again, contemporary audiences may be a little queasy about the condescension...
...hours on the road because of the travel time and then the games," she says. "You wouldn't expect `prim and proper girls' like us to chow down, but we sure do. I don't think I'm any worse than the rest of them...
...demand for imagination rather than representation, the cast pulls it off rather well. Michelle Haner is well-cast as the youthful and somewhat spacey Alex, who flirts with the various characters encountered in "Terra Incognita" and has a deep penchant for the "slanguage" of 1955. Susan Gray maintains a prim conservatism throughout the play as Fanny, a young old-maid from the Midwest. Amanda Frye wields words well as Mary, a "passionate scientist" with a particularly obscure vocabulary and an inclination to corny eloquence...
Interceptions: Player G No. Yds. Lg TD Joe Gordian 3 3 24 18 0 Sean Koscho 3 1 6 6 0 Robert Santos 3 1 0 0 0 Greg Belsher 3 1 0 0 0 Tackles: Player Prim A Tot Joe Gordian 12 12 24 Robert Santos 12 0 12 John Sparks 12 5 17 Sean Koscho...
...Player Prim A Tot John Sparks 10 3 13 Robert Santos 12 0 12 Sean Koschko 7 4 11 Kickoff Returns...