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...know when he saw him blowing kisses at Evangeline Brackett from the clubhouse canteen," thereby ensuring a rapt and docile audience. Gloom is kept down to the essential minimum and balanced by modest quantities of sex and violence, as in The Salvation of George Mackintosh, in which the beautiful Celia attempts to murder him (George) with, of all things, her niblick. (He had. after all, addressed her while she was addressing her ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clubmen at Play | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

Each summer and fall, the severe tropical storms known as hurricanes become a major meteorological peril for inhabitants of the Eastern and Gulf Coast states. In 1970 the winds, rains and floods of Hurricane Celia killed eleven and caused some $454 million in damage in Texas alone. Two years later, Hurricane Agnes brought even greater devastation, killing 118 people and leaving over $3 billion in damage. In a continuing effort to prevent−or at least minimize−such disasters, the Federal Government has been sponsoring Project Stormfury, which was designed to study the formation of the complex storms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Benefits Of Hurricanes | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE STREET ARTISTS' COOPERATIVE presents poets Celia Gilbert and Pat Rabby in a reading Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: esoterica | 9/28/1972 | See Source »

Poetry Reading: San Cornish, Elizabeth Fenton. Celia Wilfong, Cambridge Street Artists' Cooperative, 1287 Cambridge St. 8, April 23. Free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: esoterica | 4/20/1972 | See Source »

...ante. The scene is now the neo-Honeymooners apartment of Celia and her husband Phil (Simon Oakland), a retired master sargeant. Swede (Conrad Bain), an old army buddy, has just arrived and the two men are up to their elbows in cans of beer and talk of the army, the fights and other things that generally just aren't what they once used to be. Celia, a childless, tired woman, her hair--as described by her own mother--a gaudy "change-of-life red," tries to force the conversation to include herself. She gossips about the neighbors, laments the marriage...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Towards a Comedy of Lost Possibilities | 10/28/1971 | See Source »

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