Word: celling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a new man, Alexander (Eli Wallach), comes to share his cell, Ivanov complains because his coughing spoils the diminuendos. Of course, so far as the audience is concerned, Ivanov does own an orchestra, in this case the 105-member Pittsburgh Symphony, which sits center stage and follows his every command. His lunacy determines even the title of the play: "Every good boy deserves favor" is a mnemonic phrase to help music students remember the notes on a treble clef staff...
Nowhere is that more evident than in the dorms. The first look at the group bathrooms and cell-like rooms drives some adults to the nearest Holiday Inn. Most stay, however, and take advantage of the upper-class "parent-advisers," who are there to answer questions. "As long as I know he washes his face and hangs up his clothes, maybe I can relax," confides the mother of an only child. Indeed, the parents quiz the advisers closely about food, how roommate conflicts are resolved and whether refrigerators are allowed...
...black-hole fever. The parcels of nothingness are a favorite topic on the lecture circuit. They bring out record crowds for planetarium shows, and they have lately been the theme of a spate of books. In the popular lexicon, the term black hole once suggested only the legendary hellish cell in Calcutta in which British prisoners were held by an 18th century Indian nawab. Now it has become an immediately recognizable catchword for a different kind of darkness. Says one young astrophysicist...
Finally, last Nov. 10, Steptoe extracted an egg from one of Lesley's ovaries, and placed it in a laboratory dish. Edwards then fertilized the egg with John Brown's sperm. Two and a half to three days later, when the egg had undergone three cell divisions, it was placed in Lesley's uterus. Said Edwards about Baby Louise: "The last time I saw her, she was a beautiful eight-celled embryo...
...show, Springsteen will drop to one knee in front of the mike and yell with the sort of mock melodrama that cloaks an almost literal truth, "I'm just a prisoner . . . of rock 'n' roll!" In the audience, his fellow lifers laugh and cheer, delirious inmates in the same cell. Of all those prisoners, though, only the Boss holds...