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Word: buts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The outcasts of the play, Herbert Dean (Leo-Pierre Roy) and Kitty Dean (Dede Schmeiser), whose gaucherie sets off the Cavendish style, demand obnoxiousness from their performers. They get it here, in full doses, but a bit more variety might help them get through the last two acts without turning...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Family Entertainment | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

Director Garry could have taken some of the burden of enlivening slow patches of the script off the actors' hands, but chose not to, using dull blocking and an entirely static--though lavish--set. The only evidence of a director's hand in the production at all, in fact, is...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Family Entertainment | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

A LESS PASSIVE director might have chosen to make more of The Royal Family; in this production, nothing transcends simple comedy except Fanny's Act II monologue--a magical evocation of the scene backstage before curtain time, which Wilber uses to cast a spell over the house. In this case...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Family Entertainment | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

The computer has been built but "is not currently able to receive, process and disseminate the information," Daniel Jaffee, a former staff member of the CHSB, said yesterday.

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Feds Will Ask State to Return Loans; LEAA Charges Crime Funds Misspent | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

The first reads, "Sons and daughters of intellectuals are getting into P.U. (Peking University) these days, and people from worker-peasant backgrounds can't get in." This is false. There is a tendency to have a high proportion of intellectuals' sons and daughters, just as there is at Harvard, but...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Peking | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

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