Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's the bottom line? I had been giving some thought to going to college the following year. Some of my friends had gone for a while and they said it was a lot of fun, that you did not have to turn in homework on time or even attend study halls...
...orange, yellow and green, interspersed with the darker shapes of sunken hulls. "It was on Feb. 16, 1944, that we spotted 'em," the voice continues enthusiastically. "Our fighters dive-bombed all day, and next morning when they finished mopping up, more than 60 ships were on the bottom." Only after a second turn around the exposed mast of the aircraft transport freighter Fujikawa Maru does the plane begin its descent...
Normal blood pressure, he figured, ranges from 120 to 140. Young people most frequently fall in the bottom half of this range. But Dave had a history of high blood pressure, and his diet had made it worse. "The day before the physical, my blood pressure was 160. Then, just before I went, I took a No-Doz tablet to make them think I was dying." The draft board held Dave for 24 hours, a drug-detection measure he hadn't anticipated; but fortunately for him, his blood pressure remained high...
Also in the works is Furniture in 24 Hours, Volume II. One of the two dozen entries will be a chair that requires no glues or screws and can be finished for less than $10, including back and bottom cushions. Another student-designed project is an updated version of the 1940s gossip bench, also glueless and screwless, that can be made for $6. Still, to Spiros Zakas, making furniture is not so much a matter of price as of pride-of "putting yourself in your home." If he keeps at it. Author-Editor Zakas may even put Designer Zakas...
...humor of which is lost on everyone but himself. These three plays, expertly directed by Beckett's chief interpreter, Alan Schneider, at the Manhattan Theater Club, show both sides of the playwright. Play ranks just below the best; That Time and Footfalls settle not far from the bottom...