Word: walkerism
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WHEN A GOOD STRAIGHT PLAY IS TURNED into a musical, the basic question is whether music adds anything. In the case of Arthur Kopit's WINGS, a 1978 succes d'estime about a former pilot and air-show wing walker whose mind has been frazzled by a stroke, the answer is an emphatic yes -- sometimes. In the new version off-Broadway, Jeffrey Lunden's score provides evocatively dissonant metaphors for what is going on inside the afflicted woman's head. But when Arthur Perlman's book and lyrics guide her into banal emotional bonds with a therapist and fellow patients...
McNally elaborately portrays a high school community in Phoenix, Arizona. Puberty, break-ups, confused sexuality, divorces, insanity and a suicide or two confront the motley cast of teachers, parents, students and lovers. Walker Miller, an angst-ridden teen, shoots himself in the mouth, triggering a season of self-analysis for everyone involved. The novel charts their attempts to recognize and deal with their grief...
...suppose that if I'm trying to pick a time that best defines Currier House for me, I should talk about one of my 2:30 a.m. post-Crimson arrivals via the escort service--in the snow. Currierites, by definition, should probably qualify for some serious frequent-walker miles...
Names possess a peculiar indelible power -- subversive, evocative, satirical, by turns. The name is an aura, a costume. Dickens knew how names proclaim character -- although anyone named Lance is bound to hope that that is not always true. Democrats used to have fun with "George Herbert Walker Bush." The full inventory of the pedigree, formally decanted, produced a piled-on, Connecticut preppie-Little Lord Fauntleroy effect that went nicely with the populist crack that Bush "was born on third base and thought he had hit a triple...
...Melanie Stephens, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Rudi Frey, Dirck Halstead, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, David Hume Kennerly, Steve Liss, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Matthew Naythons, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...