Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...their way through the Great Depression, and an aspiring actress could get off the bus from Utah in the morning and star in a Broadway show by night, you knew your true love the moment you met him--or so Dames at Sea would have us believe. Nothing's wrong with that; any show where the piano on stage keeps playing after the piano player's stood up to sing knows just how silly it's being. Dames at Sea, written in the sixties, spoofs thirties musical comedy conventions in a finely polished and very funny production. But one sequence...
...might be considered a feminist play if it did not present such a wide range of uncommon talents and corresponding missions, including both devoted wife and ambitious career woman, as equally disastrous. The message seems not to be that women are unfairly restricted to particular roles, but it is wrong for them to have to choose any single role...
...that he is too full of himself to begin to understand what Vanya is talking about. Instead of playing Serebriakov's intentions, Zito plays him from the outside, as an Asshole. As his wife, Elena, Bonnie Zimmering gives an earnest and detailed performance that is also in the wrong key. Her painful second act scene with Serebriakov, for example, becomes a shrieking match, when Elena's real tragedy is that she suffers too silently, that she pleads instead of yelling back...
...such contest turned the season in the wrong direction. On October 11, the Crimson--then 3-3-1 and boasting two wins and a tie in the previous four outings--struggled to a 1-1 tie with an inferior Cornell contingent. The deadlock halted whatever momentum the squad had managed to amass and set the stage for the horrendous, 0-7-1 season-ending slide that followed the annihilation...
...cool under fire. Shocked by the 8:15:21 bomb, ABC's crew rushed to catch up-and proceeded to call two races wrong. Retracting his prediction of victory for incumbent Governor William Clinton in Arkansas, a slightly sheepish Max Robinson called Clinton's defeat "a stunning upset...