Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Casual Acceptance
Watching actors coping with the requirements of Albee's script is alone almost enough to recommend any production of Virginia Woolf. But watching the Atma Theater Company's skill in meeting the requirements of the play is an intense emotional experience, a real pleasure. George and Martha draw their casual acquaintances into attacks and confessions that bring Nick and Honey to quite real psychological bondage to the older couple, and that expose to both couples and to the audience, the real horrors of their childless marriage. Honey is a nervous dependent type, played a little affectedly by Miss Heineman...
LIKE most wars, the one in Indochina has bred an almost casual brutality. At Mien, a small town northeast of Phnom-Penh where bitter fighting raged two months ago, West German Photographer Dieter Ludwig was present when two Cambodian patrols returned from forays into chest-high rice fields. The first patrol brought in a North Vietnamese prisoner for interrogation (above); he talked freely after the second patrol arrived waving some grisly trophies-the severed heads of other North Vietnamese troops. Some of the Cambodians marked their victory by cutting the livers out of the enemy dead...
...operation began, following the 1965 ghetto riots and early anti-war protests, as a casual adjunct to the activities of Army agents engaged in making security checks. But by 1969, intelligence activity was turning up 1200 spot reports a month on incidents occurring around the country, according to the Times...
...several telephones in Martha Mitchell's Watergate apartment bear no numbers-a security-conscious precaution against the curiosity, and possible calls, of casual visitors. The one exception is the most famous phone in Washington: the one in Martha's bathroom. How about that? Ha, chuckled the Lady of the Long Lines, "that's a fake. The real number is one of those written on the wall...