Word: bein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daniel Seltzer's Chorus (the Greek group of elders has dwindled to a single tuxedoed commentator who bein harsh and unsparing tones that are properly sepulcomes a sort of auctor ex machina) introduces the play chral. As for the rest, Jane Quigley's nurse, though suffering from an unfeebled voice that sounds as if it has been produced by an excess of cotton, is quite wonderfully aged and querulous; and I would be unfeeling indeed if I failed to mention Theodore Kazanoff's First Guard, the very image of New York's Finest, with a wife and two kids...
Makeup Savers. When Leontyne was departing for Juilliard, Big Auntie recalls, "Miz Chisholm called her and she say, 'Promise me you'll keep on bein' just Leontyne.' " Not many people know who "just Leontyne" 15-perhaps not even Leontyne...
...borne by stretcher from victory to a hospital. His self-diagnosis: ptomaine poisoning from eating some very ripe pork. Drawled Ole Earl of his triumph over Incumbent Harold McSween in the back-country Eighth District race: "Ah don't think it helped McSween with all that about mah bein' crazy...
What if, after all, Old Soldier Elvis fades away? Parker gives a carny man's shrug. "He could go back to drivin' a truck. And I could always go back to bein' a dogcatcher. Head dogcatcher, that...