Word: arthur
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...basis of lifelong medical or therapeutic research. The Best of Dear Abby devotes a full chapter to the chronic world-wide problem of snoring spouses. In the compendium's final chapter of funny and pathetic letters, one woman writes earnestly "It there anything in insecticides that excite a man?...(Arthur) gets especially aroused right after he sprays our2
THERE ARE, if recent productions are any indication, two ways to stage The Pirates of Penzance today. One is to find a couple of sultry rock and roll sexpots to sing the leads, tinkering around with Sir Arthur Sullivan's score a little to make the romantic Victorian solos sound more like "It's So Easy to Fall in Love." The other is to follow the sturdy set of schticks that has been handed down virtually unchanged over the years since the operetta's debut a century ago with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. To his credit, Paul...
...recorded in an exhaustive new history timed to coincide with the anniversary, At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor (McGraw-Hill; $22.95). Author Gordon W. Prange, who died in 1980, began interviewing many of the Japanese principals while serving as a historian on General Douglas Mac Arthur's staff in Tokyo after Japan's surrender. He learned of the daunting tactical problems that faced the planners: how to find precisely the right bombing altitude and bombs to pierce armor-plated decks, how to perfect both torpedoes and torpedo-plane tactics for Pearl Harbor...
...play games, teach children vocabulary or keep track of household finances. Yet it was a flop in the marketplace because the price of more than $1,000 was too expensive for most families, while computer buffs considered the product too unsophisticated. Observes Bill Meserve, a computer analyst with the Arthur D. Little consulting firm: "The 99/4 was neither fish nor fowl...
...Waiting for Lefty," the play that made him famous, is a perfect example of the class-oriented drama fashionable at the time. Like Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine or Arthur Miller's All My Sons, Lefty was everywhere acknowledged to be as much a political statement as an artistic one. It was quickly hailed in the left-wing press; the drama critic of the Daily Worker called it "frankly revolutionary propaganda...the most exciting theater this reporter has seen in many months...