Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surely one of the funniest one-acters I have ever seen, Noon is about a wide variety of people (a nymphomaniac, a homosexual, an uptight heterosexual-intellectual, and a middle-aged sado-masochist couple from Westchester) who find themselves thrown together in a New York loft. They have all come to meet with a certain Dale (sex unknown) who seems to have answered each character's sleazy newspaper ad for sexual adventure...
...Dale does not show up- and what follows is one of the great non-orgies of all time. Only in the sixties, in the days of the so-called sexual revolution, can people of such widely varied sexual tastes come together- only to find that none of their tastes coincide. Like Horovitz, McNally powerfully demonstrates how the multitude of roles available to liberated modern man can become a humanity-crushing obsession...
...Midway through the first period. Steve Harrison returned a Bruin punt 54 yards to the Brown 9, but Harvard could not score, and Rich Szaro had to come in and boot a 20-yard field goal to salvage the opportunity. But early in the second period, the Bruins marched 68 yards for a touchdown, with Tom Spotts scoring from the 12 on a pass from Chris Burgess, and moments later, returned a Harvard punt to the Crimson 25, scoring again seven plays later...
...House was not in session on Friday. The Senate was in session for half a day. Most of the House members didn't come to their offices on Friday. They found one excuse or another to be out of town, or at home. The few people who did come in generally avoided talking to their young constituents who were beginning to flow into the House offices...
...Polly, come home again...