Word: bested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Irving, a best-selling novelist, read the fifth chapter of his fifth novel, "The Hotel New Hampshire," to a crowd of about 150 at Adams House last night...
Apologizing for a cold, he quoted a friend who once told him that "perhaps I read best when I was sick because my things were sick...
...their parts, least of all Sweeney, who is not at all the forceful, bravura wonderwoman Aristophanes had in mind for Lysistrata. She seems intent upon getting through her lines as quickly as possible with a minimum of enthusiasm or voice inflection, and in this respect she succeeds. Despite her best efforts, Christopher's speech and actions as Kalonike more closely resemble those of Long Island than of classical Greece while Boghossian's Myrrhine, who has a crucial scene with husband Kinesias (Joe Smith), is far more coy and less brazenly seductive than Aristophanes intended. About the only female character...
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...America doing the book. He finally shows evidence that he can fulfill the awesome promise he created with the publication of The Naked and the Dead some 30 years ago, at the callow age of 27. He is now 56 and fat against his will; he's also the best writer in America. His book will be read...