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In Honor of Edward Albee, Slip a Virginia Woolf Insult Into Your Conversation Tonight
The playwrighting master Edward Albee died Friday at 88 at his home in Montauk, NY. You can remember him as a father of American absurdism; as the tender but ruthless memoirist of Three Tall Women; as the gleeful provocateur of The Goat. You can also remember his acid wit, as suggested by the director and writer Isaac Butler on Twitter, when he asked his followers to tweet their favorite insults from Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Try them on your loved ones tonight!