Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mountain of pasta; one cannot see through her to the mythic past. There is bougainvillaea, and weeping willow, and a century of wounded Southern pride in the prose arias that Tennessee Williams gave the role; all one hears in Miss Stapleton's voice is the jagged, chop-chop talk of a tenement mother. The garrulity is present but not the gallantry...
Straightening up, the visitor cupped his hand slightly and delivered the forward chop of his arm that is his symbol. "Adelante," he said. Forward...
Edward Albee's new play, Tiny Alice, is the most controversial dramatic puzzle to arrive on Broadway since The Cocktail Party. Over lunches and dinners, from Keen's English Chop House to the Forum of the Twelve Expense Accounts, the table talk of the town is Albee's darkling play about a rich and erotic woman who corrupts a pietistic and virginal man of the church (John Gielgud), seduces him into marrying her, then abandons him on their marriage night, but not before she causes him to be pistol-murdered by one of three confidants, including...
...with machinelike precision. In climactic passages he carved the air with jabbing, slashing strokes of his baton while his left hand "danced like a bird caught in a storm. At other times he seemingly stared the musicians through their paces, intermittently striking cues with the suddenness of a judo chop...
...Piazza San Marco to the Rialto, it was a gaudy blur of masquers and courtesans, actors, singers and sightseers. As the sunny antithesis of London, and most colorful way-point of the Grand Tour, Casanova's Venice even then drew 30,000 Englishmen a year. So many top-chop Londoners returned with Canaletto's etchings and oil paintings that an Englishwoman visiting the city for the first time in 1785 wrote that the artist's "views of this town are most scrupulously exact, to such a degree that we knew all the famous towers, steeples, etc., before...