Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything after this is an anti-climax, either. Barnes' touch remains reliably strong throughout the whole play, which runs for three long and rewarding hours, mixing burlesque, absurdist tradition, and blank verse of an elevation hardly to be found since Eliot: "Twill make a desert of this world/Whilst ther's still one man left t' give commands/And another who'll obey them," Carlos says bitterly of all authority. Barnes--if not quite up to the level of his originals--is adept at suggesting Shakespeare, Wilde and the Marx brothers, and is best at bringing them all together to make something...
From the street, the effect is disorienting; someone has deposited the set from The Guns of Navarone on the Washington Mall. It is a squat cylinder four stories high and 231 ft. across, sheathed in granite aggregate the color of flushed elephant skin. The outside wall is blank except for an embrasure; one looks (in vain) for the muzzle of a 16-in. gun peeping from the slit. Such, on first glimpse, is the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, built to house the enormous collection of 4,000 paintings and 2,000 sculptures that Joseph Hirshhorn, 75, the feisty, thrusting...
Best putdown of non-books: The Nothing Book (Harmony/Crown; $3), with 192 blank pages...
...press secretary for the Vice President. James M. Cannon, a onetime political reporter who helped lobby revenue sharing through Congress, is expected to become Rockefeller's liaison with Congress. Joseph Persico, a former USIA staffer, will be the Veep's chief speechwriter, though he admits to experiencing "blank-page terror" when he starts composing a speech. "I now have trouble writing a business letter without making it sound like Caesar haranguing the Etruscans," he says. Ann Whitman, who was once President Eisenhower's secretary, will continue to be Rockefeller's personal secretary...
...tapes are produced, the White House might report, as it has in the past, that some recordings mentioned in the subpoena simply were never made. So far the White House has said that 13 tapes previously sought do not exist. Others may contain gaps, like a 19-minute blank reported last week by the Special