Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tennessee Williams outlived his talent but not his yearning to create. Throughout his final years of drunkenness, lewd confessions and paranoiac public feuding, in the face of critical rejection and box-office failure, he went on writing, morning after diligent morning, no matter how he had misspent the night before. That poignant fact confers dignity on what was otherwise the pathetic wreckage of genius. Unlike Eugene O'Neill, his chief rival for the laurel as America's greatest playwright, Williams left no posthumous masterpiece. Indeed, unless future generations discern something more than glimmers of incandescence in the murky, forgettable plays...
...band with such a cynical outlook would attract little attention outside of the self-conscious New Wave demimonde; but for less sophisticated ears. Depeche Mode embodies the cool kinetic madness of the best beat-box music, only with the less aggression...
...Park, near Chicago. "I love Coke. We all do. My husband. My kids." Said Christine Dale, a student at the University of Chicago graduate school of business: "I think this is definitely a step in the wrong direction." But other early tasters liked the new Coke (see box). Said Emanuel Goldman, beverage analyst for San Francisco's Montgomery Securities: "It's more guzzleable. My guess is that Coke will end up selling more...
...quite moving. Embedded in the humor we find a barely suppressed fear: for Jack and Babette the reliance on machinery, drugs and quick answers spells an end to basic human dignity, and all they can think about is dying before they have really lived. And the Cracker-Jack Box prize, the incentive for late night page mongers is DeLillo's dialogue, especially between father and precocious son, or father and ditzy mother...
...just thinking '[hit one] through the box,'" said Vallone, who went three for four with a double, a walk and four RBI. The ninth hitter in the line-up is now batting...