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...each other with all their might till both little boys ran away. Two little girls wheeled out a big baby carriage and propped up a life-size doll. Then they dressed it up with all the grown-up ladies' clothes that Mama had stored away in the attic ages ago. One little boy skipped and jumped over to a big blackboard, chalked up those deathless words: MARY LOVES BILL...
...losing than by joining the 16 prizewinners. Bed & Booze. The jurors, though, were loudly upset. "Farce," cried Critic John Mason Brown. "We've had enough," said Yale Drama Professor J. W. Gassner, who recalled that when he and Brown recommended Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic in 1960, it was jettisoned for the musical Fiorello! Both jurors quit. Apparently, the play's preoccupation with bed and booze proved too much for some of the 14 Advisory Board members. "I thought it was a filthy play," said Chicago Tribune Editor William D. Maxwell, who spends part...
...result, wealthy Parisians let the paint peel from their houses, put, their Picassos in the attic, and claimed that their pedigreed poodles were used exclusively as watchdogs, which are taxexempt. (Le Fisc finally abandoned its hit-and-mistress methods this year.) When the inspectors started demanding taxpayers' financial records, artful Frenchmen from plumbers to landlords retaliated by insisting on cash for their services; the most fashionable doctor in Paris today would sooner vote for socialized medicine than accept a patient's check...
...that attacks both from within and without. Separate units dispersed inside give each floor an independent wind and rumble capability. Mounted on the roof are four propellers, which may not be World War II Air Force surplus, yet reproduce the effects of a B-17 warming up in the attic. They impart to the lower floors a pulse beat of a steady thirty-five, which quickens to a dull tremor throughout the upper stories...
...years since these exercises were performed, the avant-garde seems to have gone somewhere else. Surrealist painting seems to have joined the art nouveau lamp shade in the attic; surrealism in writing has fared worse. Sample Miller...