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...oppressed existence, all too often foreshortened by death from childbirth. Small wonder that Victorian women ingested vast quantities of alcohol and opium patent medicines. Inveighing against these tranquilizers of the age, one physician declared, "Their manufacturers are deserving of a place in the deepest part of the bottomless pit." His foresight is an astonishment; Green's hindsight is an education...
EVERY EVENING this week at the Loeb, upwards of 40 talented people have convened to pour their creative energies down a bottomless pit. As usual, weeks of work show their traces in the intricate movement of scenes, the well-targeted snap of dance steps, the synchronized sparkle of line delivery and reaction. The complex mainstage machinery rises and whirs, the orchestra thumps away, the presentation flows. But the pit yawns, and engulfs the actors' sparkle, and remains bottomless, for theirs is the most pitifully misguided endeavor the Harvard stage has witnessed in many moons...
...eagerly I waited, that first week, for life--my only real one--to compose itself with the room as I have it: midnight: the mirror: the window bulged with my Dreams like firelight--like the bottomless drawer of an old chest...
Banco officials were soon telephoning around the world in a frantic search for funds. But even the banks that had stood by Brazil to protect their existing investments were fearful of pouring more money into what now yawned before them as a bottomless...
DIED. Joseph Kipness, 71, bouncy, bustling Broadway producer and restaurateur (Joe's Pier 52), who with bottomless enthusiasm made and lost fortunes backing such hits as La Plume de Ma Tante and High Button Shoes (727 performances) and flops like Frankenstein (which lasted one night and cost more than $2 million); of cancer; in New York City...