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...seat for this late January performance was an orange-crate-turned-bench, squeezed against the backside of the stage left wall in a room bearing closer resemblance to a glorified furnace closet than any kind of backstage rest stop. The equal ceiling was gnarled with heating pipes, and about ten feet, back--where the room slightly used out to its end--crouched an old fat furnace, gurgling away through most of the show. Next to it stood a vaudevillian theatre mirror lined with a few dusty but brightly lit bulbs. Old pop cans, boxes, and performance notes decked the floor...
...Harvard mentor literally cleared his bench, a pleasure which he has been afforded on few occasions this season. As a result of this gesture the Bulldogs were able narrowly to decrease the lead, and in addition every Crimson performer made a dent on the scoring sheets...
...which a right handed surgeon would have had to face to perform the involved hysterotomy operation and that this direction was diametrically away from the clocks. Before Judge James P. McGuire gave his order to clear the desk. Flanagan objected twice and McGuire held two lengthy conferences at the bench, while the defendant gazed morosely out past the jury and the gallery with his chin planted on his fist...
...Mitty and an Übermensch simultaneously? Nicholas (Jean-Louis Trintignant) cannot even get the right sandwich for lunch. He meekly accepts what the harried counterman passes over to him and spends the rest of the noon hour in a park, where an attendant tries to charge him for a bench he is not sitting on. When he spots an interesting female, his approach is promising, probably because it has been well rehearsed. "You're looking," he tells a statuesque model of a girl (Jane Birkin), "for someone who doesn't exist." She responds, not seeming to mind...
When Jacqueline Nash, 24, pleaded guilty to possessing an unregistered handgun in East Cleveland, Judge James De Vinne was ready to sentence her to three days in jail. Suddenly her fiancé approached the bench. He was to blame, said Roderick Hinson. They had quarreled, and it was his pistol that she had been brandishing in the street. Well, said the judge, would Hinson be willing to serve the sentence for her? Yes, said Hinson, and after kissing and making up with Miss Nash, he went cheerfully off to jail...