Word: working
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Cobb Playwright Lee Blessing sees in the spikes-flying style of baseball's Ty Cobb not only the professionalization of an amiable amateur game but also the emergence of an aggressive American Century. He made that thesis work on regional stages without overburdening the life story of a hero detested by his teammates...
Square One Steve Tesich's futuristic off-Broadway satire of life in a totalitarian state seems outdated by history, but the human impulse to impose orthodoxy persists, so this witty and touching work is likely to be topical again all too soon...
More important, the U.S. may now move militarily -- without giving the sanctions time to work on Saddam -- because the President describes the ! Amnesty report as "one of the things that's driving me. I've heard some guy telling me . . . we've got time. Time. Read it. It's what's happening now. We don't have a lot of time...
...less safe and less certain about what the future holds than they did in Christmases Past. In the real estate fantasylands of California and the Northeast, homeowners who think they live in a $300,000 house suddenly "lose" $80,000 when they try to sell. In Chicago out-of-work architects are invited to lunch at a soup kitchen for a bowl of chili and some free advice from colleagues who have survived previous recessions. Washington hairdressers report that business is down: in hard times, people let it grow. And as long as the nation is stuttering toward war, there...
...antidote: through its "Peace of Mind Guarantee Program" it promises skittish home buyers that if they lose their jobs due to economic conditions within a year of closing, Calton will cover mortgage payments up to $1,500 a month for six months or until the owner returns to work. Says newlywed Wendy Goldberg, a computer instructor who will soon close on a $150,000 home: "The idea of taking all our funds and running them dry to buy a house was very scary. At least this way we'll have a place to live if something happens to our jobs...