Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There are fewer doctors and lawyers with close and continuous relationships with their clients," he added...
...close enough to be alarming...
Writing is hard work for him now: "You go into a dark room ind close the door, and you're alone inside your head." One pulls things out of the mental attic to use in the column, he adds, and the attic is depleted. You don't have time to add much to your store. "How many column ideas are there?" he asks. "There's the plumber, and your teenagers, and your car, and your house. If you're really desperate, you can write about your wife, and then it's time to hang up the typewriter...
...that great hits-My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, A Chorus Line-were great from the start and only needed polishing. "Ninety percent of plays that call in a new writer and director fail," says Styne. "Sometimes the best you can do is to convince them to close," adds Joseph Stein, who wrote Fiddler on the Roof and has doctored such plays as Irene and Raisin. "If you're lucky, the show will be mediocre...
True, Jimmy Carter has delivered a number of soliloquies on the "moral equivalent of war," but the attributes of war remain absent. The problem seems abstract to Americans, except when gas prices rise and stations close...