Word: bil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kudos for acting go without question to Dick Backus as Wilfred and David Cole as Point. Backus, looking like a Bil Baird marioneette, stole the show every time he was on stage, and even if G&S suffered a bit in the process, he was outrageously funny. Cole played his part with panache, executing the comic baritone's infamous patter songs with skill and incisiveness...
Hoping to cool the nationalistic temper surrounding the bill, the State Department issued a strong formal protest; it reminded Canada that its own huge banking interests in the U.S. - including about half the lucrative Wall Street call-loan market - amount to some $1.6 bil lion and hinted at possible reprisal. The note did not find a welcome. When one high-ranking U.S. diplomat explained the U.S. position in Ottawa, he was told, "Don't be a bloody fool...
Hammond went high in the air to tip one hard shot over the goal, and made an equally spectacular deflection on a low, hard bullet aimed at the lower left corner by right halfback Bil Smoyer. The Crimson captain came up with 8 clutch saves in the fourth quarter and 17 overall in his best performance to date...
...Dark. The great imponderable is how much the Viet Nam war will affect federal spending. Partly because of an unestimated rise of more than $2 bil lion in tax receipts, partly because of a slight and temporary drop in military spending, the Government ended its fiscal year with a cash deficit estimated by the Treasury last week at only $1.1 billion-sharply below the $6.9 billion deficit anticipated last January...
...PUPPET by Bil Baird. 251 pages. Macmillan. $17-50. Puppeteer Bil Baird's book is not a history but an appreciation of the theatrical form whose genesis, lost in time, goes back thousands of years. Punch and Judy were born before Diarist Samuel Pepys, who watched their antics in the 17th century. Punch's ancestor, a hook-nosed Turkish bully named Karaghioz, preceded him by several centuries. The special exaggerated magic of the marionette, which lives only in the minds of its spectators and often requires three human puppeteers to give it movement, is affectionately evoked...