Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the district attorney announced the shocking news-little Dean was the No. 1 suspect. He had made three separate "statements" ("I stabbed Dad first, then Mom"). He had planned the parricide, he said, while lying in bed several nights before. On the night of the crime, police said, Dean read an article in the Mormon magazine Era entitled, "I Think of Papa." It was illustrated by gnarled hands peeling an apple with a knife, ended: "How priceless is the memory of a good father." Dean left his Boy Scout knife folded inside Era, then went to bed. Later...
...discovery was made by detective work added to heavy digging. After spending part of the summer excavating the conspicuous ruins of a temple of Artemis, the diggers got down to the river bed without finding anything Lydian. In other promising spots they found only worthless Roman or Christian remains, and a few Lydian potsherds. But when they attacked the foundations of a large Roman-Byzantine structure called "Building B," they found a promising clue: a great marble block with an inscription telling that the Roman Emperor Lucius Verus (A.D. 130-169) had passed that way and given...
...staff (four Britons, six Foley-trained Cypriots) with querulous sarcasm. ("How many Cypriots," he is likely to cry, "care enough about the British cricket test matches to want to be told they've been rained off in one-inch type?") Foley will order replates by phone from his bed to keep up with the island's latest explosion, blithely ignoring groans from his Greek printing staff...
...Williams, Brooks has a rare playwright who can make his static electric, and a blinkered grope toward the past as suspenseful as a headlong crash into the future. Maggie the Cat (played with surprising sureness by Elizabeth Taylor) is young, beautiful, childless; her hot tin roof is the marital bed no longer shared by her husband Brick (Paul Newman), a onetime college athlete now tying on the booze bag every night in search of the "click in my head." Together they have come back to Big Daddy's "28,000 of the richest acres west of the River Nile...
...love and for the creature comforts she never knew in her youth. Catalyst for them all is Brick, whose homosexual attraction for a teammate (only hinted at in the picture) and subsequent flood of guilt over his buddy's death have led him to give up bed for the bottle. In the end he makes his peace with his father and promises to make true Maggie's lie that she is pregnant. But the outcome is of meager importance. Playwright Williams' stage is filled not with actors in a drama, but with dancers in a psychiatric striptease...