Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SURE AN OLD GOAT might think of carrying on an affair for thirty years with the same woman. But what if he's your father? Neil Simon gives his generation an outlet for its fantasies, sexual and otherwise. He also provides a blanket of security for the over-40 crowd by poking fun at its socially unacceptable desires. A mother might turn to her husband at the end of a play by Simon and say. "See, dear, that's why we haven't been swapping partners lately...
Fortunately, when she wakes up, McCann has her own kind of security blanket-the comforting facts. Last year the plays that she produced with her partner, Nelle Nugent, grossed more than $14 million. Since McCann and Nugent went into business less than five years ago, they have been responsible, in whole or in part, for some of Broadway's biggest hits: Dracula, The Elephant Man, Morning's at Seven, Amadeus. When they started, their colleagues referred to them simply as the girls. Now they are respectfully called the ladies-or, more appropriately, the golden ladies...
...present policy--a blanket prohibition on investments in banks that make any loans to the South African government--"is simply too restrictive," George Putnam, the University's Treasurer and a Corporation member, said recently...
...been for the blanket of powder snow and the blue skies, the problems under discussion this year might have seemed weighty enough to send Mann's hero Hans Castorp back to the sanitarium for another seven years. Europe's most influential men were deeply upset over the turmoil in international financial markets. In a session chaired by former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, Karl Otto Pohl, president of the West German Bundesbank, expressed concern over the disparate rates of inflation throughout Europe and the West, calling for "effective measures for coordinating economic policy." Guido Carli, former governor...
...Irish playwright, almost blind, appears in his shabby, shadowy room, warmed by a dark red blanket, looking like some sort of sweet yet cranky prince of the mind and spirit. On the basis of his memoirs, that is just what Gjon Mili appears...