Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Drury Lane Theatre echoed with farewells, and the 2,000-strong audience cheered to the point of tears. London's most dazzling actor-manager. David Garrick, 59, had made his final bow. Having sold his share of Drury Lane earlier this year for ?35,000 to Playwright Richard Sheridan, 24, Garrick gave a series of farewell performances that drew crowds from as far away as France. He chose eleven roles calculated to display his unique range and the naturalistic style he pioneered, including adaptations of Lear and Hamlet. "The Garrick" had wanted to appear last...
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Twenty years after his last bow, the paradigm of detective-as-Lochinvar is still Raymond Chandler's incorrodable shamus, Philip Marlowe. He was, of course, a total fiction. As Chandler admitted, "the real-life private eye is a sleazy little drudge... a strong-arm guy with no more personality than a blackjack. He has about as much moral stature as a stop-and-go sign...
...entrance, 14 floors up a 205-ft. escalator to the World's glass roof, the visitor is greeted by two huge sculptured mimes and two living counterparts who bow a welcome. Next comes a "Renaissance Midway," lined with circus wagons exhibiting such Krofftian put-ons as the Fat Lady, who turns out to be a performer garbed as a super-porker, and the Tattooed Lady, who is costumed as the world's only sexy rhino. Melody pours from a marvel designed by one Nick O'Lodeon, which features 29 instruments. A belly dancer gyrates, jugglers toss balls...
...never sure you'll win until you go over the finish line first, but I like to think in terms of probabilities, and I'd bet on us no matter what the odds." Harvard Heavyweights Stroke Scholle 7 Howeff 6 Aitken 5 Brock 4 Kevins 3 Kemp 2 Bixby Bow White Coxswain Larson...