Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Margot Crosman's "Half-Drawn" comes closer than the other pieces to the idiom of the theater. "Half-Drawn" begins with four near-nude women in a room. Three don party shoes and climb under a big quilt; the fourth dresses herself in a long black sheath and black gloves, then opens the door for a man in a tux. No more said...
More troubling to some critics was the definition of the job. According to a Ralph Nader organization, Public Citizen, "the ridiculous and arcane bureaucratic language used in the preparation of the [State Department] report comes closer to parody than serious Government proposal." Mrs. Braden admits to being somewhat vague about her duties ("I've only been here since Friday," she said last week, after her first days on the job). Most probably, she will attempt to apply her clear-as-mud mandate to such matters as wheat sales, export taxes and passports. But even some State Department officials concede...
Scarecrow and Seagulls. Despite the cost and difficulty of keeping 20 people employed and paid for the six months it took to make, Ruckus Manhattan is closer to the street than the museum. It is cobbled together from the lumberyards of So-Ho and hardware bazaars of Canal Street, permeated with the hoarse side-of-the-mouth loquacity of a kvetching cabbie, swarming with grim and gaudy figures who, says Mimi Gross, are true New Yorkers, being "nosy, curious and short." There is a gritty and lugubrious side to the Ruckus imagination. Some of the figures are gross ham-faced...
...Tiparillo Slims: maybe that's what the successful ones affect. Brayton is dressed in a kind of messy, informal Brooks Brothers, probably the same way he dressed a few years back when he was in the Owl Club. His life now, two and a half years after graduation, is closer to that limbo of college than that of his contemporary alumni, who have neatened up by now. Brayton's still a professional baseball player, and after two and a half seasons, he's a borderline case, teetering, insecure about his position, and very, very vulnerable. He's semi-successful...
...announced that gas supplies would come closer to meeting demand than it had anticipated in October. The revised prediction estimates that potential demand will exceed supply by 21% rather than the previously forecast 23%. Though the 2% difference seems small, it is crucial-just enough to remove the threat of supply cutoffs to industrial plants that can use only natural gas as a fuel. Barring abnormally cold weather, Zarb now says, the only factories and utilities likely to have their gas supplies interrupted are those that can switch to alternative fuels like oil; the clear implication is that gas shortages...