Word: bahs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many years the Indians and early settlers of the American Southwest treasured the oil they pressed from the beans of the wild jojoba shrub. In Arizona and California the jojoba (pronounced ho-ho-bah) oil was used as a nostrum for almost every ill: to ease childbirth, as a remedy for cancer, even as a laxative. Spanish colonists liked to rub the waxy, colorless oil on their mustaches. Last week a panel of National Research Council scientists reported that the jojoba bean may also be a panacea for the endangered sperm whale...
Nanki-Poo (Tom Fuller) was also excellent. The straight male Dudley Doright lead in G & S operas are usually second in insipidity only to the straight female lead, and Fuller turned in one of the most successful recent performance in such a difficult, unrewarding role. Pooh-Bah (Scott Moe) was well performed, but not as satisfactory; like Peter Rogers's unfortunate Mikado and Crowley's otherwise fine Ko-Ko, his portrayal suffered from too much of an unctiousness that makes Gilbert and Sullivan seem like effete tomfoolery, overbred "veddy British" knockabout farce, instead of satirical light opera of the highest...
...have the President-after all-after all these months and what we've gone through and now once I have learned something of it I say "bah...
Alejandro Lanusse, Argentina's military strongman, who had been doing his best to ignore Perón, is now close to war with el Lider's rambunctious followers. Speaking to reporters in the city of Bahía Blanca last week, Lanusse denied that a Peronist youth leader had been jailed in the rioting, but he made it clear that he thought the young man should have been locked up. "Patience has a limit," he warned. "At any moment we can show that we do not carry weapons as ornaments." As for Perón: "That gentleman...
...Bah! Humbug...