Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what appeared to be the garb of a plumber but which closer examination revealed to be a fashionable variation of such workman's clothing: his dungarees were of fawn corduroy, his shirt of red and blue lumberjack checks. He wore boots that were unusual, being silver-coloured; and beneath each armpit, in a shade of fawn that matched his dungarees, were sewn-on patches, appearing to symbolise a labourer's excretion of sweat...
...heavyweight, Phills faced Columbia's talented Jay Craddock. In this battle of the behemoths, who had split the results of their past two showdowns, Phills finally earned the takedown and was leading 2-1 when he made a miscue, found himself trapped beneath Craddock's immensity, and was pinned...
...play by British playwright Charles Wood about the bumbling attempts of an Anglo-American team to shoot a film in Ireland about the American Revolution for the celebration of the American Bicentenial. It's less confusing than it sounds--Has "Washington" Legs? is pure farce with a dark side beneath, but it's too freewheeling to say anything well. The result is a two-hour burlesque show with some long gaps in between moments of high comedy...
...jolly good fun, with some wonderful parody of Bunker Hill and American moviedom. But there's a bitter edge beneath the verbal byplay, a sardonic vision reminiscent of Catch-22. If Wood disrupts the humor and flow with the prolonged dispute between the workers and Bean, it's because he has a point to make. War or moviemaking is nothing but a chaotic nightmare; and while some madman director-general barks orders from a crane, several hundred lowly paid extras, be they Irish soldiers in the British Army in 1775 or Irish extras in a British movie...
...Beneath the gaiety that illumines most of the letters is a profound despair, half mock, half real, at her demanding choice of profession. Like almost all writers, Colette found that simple, clear sentences are the most difficult. "I have now begun my scene . . . for the eighth time," she complained to one correspondent. "I've finished-or I think I've finished," she remarked about another story. "But not without torment! The last page, precisely cost me my entire first day [of vacation]-and I defy you, when you read it, to suspect this. Alas, that a mere...