Word: brickes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Butley. At least when Alan Bates had the load, this was a tremendously funny play, literally a laugh a minute. The subject matter is unlikely--a boozy English English professor at a red brick university who in a single day manages to lose his wife, his job and his homosexual lover. It's impossible to predict whether or not the hard-edged English ability to turn pathos into comedy will be well reproduced at Dunster House, but if the Dunster House British Comedy Evening last year was any indication, they have the ability to do very well indeed. At Dunster...
...kilotons for the Hiroshima bomb), spaced about 500 ft. apart. The blasts produced so little radiation and such stable walls that technicians were able to walk along the rim of the 2,600-ft.-long crater only two days later. The only damages were some cracks in the brick ovens and wall plaster of nearby log cabins. Although the Russians have not done any further blasting, they say that the job could be done with some 250 nuclear devices, mostly in the 100- to 200-kiloton range, fired about 20 at a time...
Down the block from Fisher's house is an old brick apartment building that some developer has settled upon as a likely spot for condominium living. Workers are clearing out the interior and leaving a pile of rubble outside the building...
...Kings of Bhutan and Sikkim. Over the years, the Shangri-la quality of the mountain kingdoms has been diminished by the encroachment of Western civilization. "The one-room thatch shack that was the airport building at Katmandu's Gauchar Airport is long gone," Shepherd reports, "and the red brick complex that replaced it even has a duty-free shop." Communications, too, have improved, and the remote monarchies have learned the uses of American-style public relations. On this visit Shepherd adds, "The royal press room snowed us with a small library of booklets, leaflets, and news releases...
...union hall of Local 186 of the Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association, AFL-CIO, is on Berkeley St. near Boston's South End, on the second floor of a crumbling brick building. It's an old office, dim with scuffed linoleum floors and paraphernalia all over the walls. Most of the space in the office is taken up by a large room filed with folding chairs that face a podium...