Word: caged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Osborne's anti-hero is Bill Maitland, a London solicitor hung up on booze, barbiturates and the bleak self-knowledge that he is "irredeemably mediocre." He is pushing 40, a tooth-shy, flea-bitten leopard, all spots and no strength, restlessly, frantically, pacing the cage of his life-in-death. "In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost," wrote Dante; Inadmissible Evidence is, among other things, a threnody on the middle years, laced with caustic humor...
...steal of his own. He took the puck down the right side and flipped it past a suddenly empty-handed Thornton from about eight feet. The score was none too beautiful, but for Harvard at that moment, there was nothing prettier than the bright red light behind the cage...
Clark's shot was weak, but Pete Waldinger picked it up in front of the cage and poked a dribbler through Thornton's legs. As the puck lay between the goalie and the goal Parrot swooped in from the left and made the kill...
Less than three minutes later, Harvard's power play clicked again. Kevin Burke took a pass from Ed Zeliner behind the cage, skated around to the front, and scooped the puck by goalie Barry van Derbig...
...result, a parade of stars from Mary Martin to Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, who ordinarily shun TV, have allowed themselves to be shrunk down to 21 inches simply because they knew Schaefer would be calling the shots. Said doughty Trevor Howard after taping Eagle in a Cage: "I'd play Mickey Mouse for him. I trust him. He is one of the few directors for whom I would work script unseen." Emmy Winner Julie Harris calls Schaefer "positively inspired...