Word: acidizing
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...Pulitzer board's only recognition of the major news events of last year was the deserved award to the Washington Star's syndicated columnist Mary McGrory, 57, for her etched-in-acid running commentary on Watergate...
...challenge is a bit awesome, for unlike the other famous portrayals, Truman is close to us in time, and had by far the most public exposure. An audience would quickly detect anything spurious or stagy in the performance. The acid test has already been passed, for after seeing Whitmore at Washington, D.C.'s Ford's Theater, Margaret Truman Daniel gave him her enthusiastic endorsement. Ending a sellout three-week engagement at Ford's, the show will go on to Memphis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle...
Divorced. By Maggie Smith, 40, willowy English Oscar winner (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) and this Broadway season's blase, acid-tongued divorcee in Noel Coward's drawing-room classic Private Lives: Actor Robert Stephens, 43; on grounds of Stephens' adultery; after eight years of marriage, two children; in London...
Died. Mary Ure, 42, cerebral, icily sensual British actress; of an apparent heart attack; in London. She first won wide attention as the wellborn, ill-used wife of an acid-tongued lout in Look Back in Anger, the 1956 marital psychomelodrama by her first husband, Playwright John Osborne. She went on to give other strong performances in films (Sons and Lovers) and on stage (Duel of Angels, Old Times), sometimes co-starring with her second husband, Actor-Playwright Robert Shaw...
...ACID test of sexual equality is the act of sex itself, then it seems that women--and men--have a long way to go. And the inescapable question--one that the Marias ask with a faint horror--is whether they will ever get there. Sometimes the answer seems to be yes, sometimes no. And as far as what happens with the way things are now and have been for centuries, the Marias seem to offer two alternatives for women: either give yourself to your enemy and go mad or commit suicide like Maria, or else harden yourself like Joana...