Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Tenafly who's never before left home and who can't tell a thermostat from a fire alarm, would probably snap up Michael Edelhart's first book, College Knowledge. This type of boiled--cabbage adolescent continually strikes out socially, maintains a sparking B-average and struggles desperately to act like everybody else. He even puts "Hang in there, baby" posters on his dorm walls...
...first to bring charges; her boyfriend reacting with outrage but with a lack of true understanding; the community half suspecting that the victim may have done something to provoke the crime; the rapists, when they are finally brought to trial, insisting that they were indeed enticed into their act; the woman, supported only by a friend, forced to relive the most ghastly moments of her life in testimony and in re-enactment of the crime...
Another new compensation wrinkle that more and more employers are adopting is the Tax Reduction Act Stock Ownership Plan, or TRASOP. Under a law passed by Congress in 1975, a company can get an extra tax credit of up to 1% of its investment in new plant and equipment if it distributes that tax saving to employees in the form of company stock. The value of TRASOP to employees is lessened by the fact that they get the shares only when they leave the company. While this and other new departures in pay are engaging enough, most earners would probably...
...upper-echelon Muslim urges them to start executing whites in order to achieve the elevated status of Death Angel, a role that confers a kind of perverse respectability. Each of the neophytes must kill nine men, five women or four children. Murdering the young earns more points because the act requires more "heart." On the eve of the killing spree the loft becomes a staging arena for a combination of horseplay and unfocused hatred: " 'Kill! Kill! Kill!' The chant was low, murmured, sloshing across the room like dirty water in a flooded basement. It came from mechanized mouths...
Such apparent indecision on the director's part knocks the audience off balance. It doesn't help that Cain chooses the very middle of Act III--right before Lear enter's Poor Tom's hovel--for his intermission; the mounting horror in the theater suddenly dissipates when you buy your "Jamaica Cola" in the lobby, and it's difficult to take Lear's self-dramatizing declamation right after a desultory intermission conversation, or a trip to the rest rooms. Thus such atrocities as the general guffaw that followed Lear's "Didst thou give all to thy daughters?" last Thursday night...