Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best plays of Eugene O'Neill and John Osborne, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter, wherever anger scalds and language blisters, the ghost of this strange, contradictory figure hovers in the wings. The demons he unleashed from his bedroom still wander through films and fiction today. As a young man, Strindberg wrote his manifesto: "No spring-cleaning is possible, everything must be burned, blown to bits." Here stands the classic confession of the artist as terrorist--not a nice man, but very much our contemporary...
...already against Harvard rules to cheat; students know from the day they enroll here that they have signed a tacit contract not to break the rules. An honor code is not necessary to remind students that they're not supposed to let their eyes wander onto their neighbors' bluebooks...
...community groups to crack down. Even though, of course, about 98 percent of Harvard students don't drive at Harvard--only 97 students registered cars last year, according to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Even though, by making the campus restrictive, students will be encouraged to wander elsewhere in search of alcohol and perhaps get into more trouble...
...Roger Miller, twangy country songwriter. Twain wrote penetratingly of the time when his nation was a frontier. Miller (Dang Me, King of the Road) provides at most a wistful echo of that era, a longing for the free and easy life now that there are few byways left to wander. But the musical, featuring 17 of Miller's down-home ditties, seems utterly natural, as full of unforced charm as Huck himself...
...still has jewelry to sell. Pedicab drivers offer Western passengers "beautiful young girls," while street entrepreneurs compete to buy dollars at several times the official (100 to 1) rate. In the black market along Nguyen Hue Street, a few trendsetters wearing body shirts, designer jeans and modish sunglasses wander among stalls crammed with the latest in color TVs and stereo systems...