Word: corneres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MILWAUKEE: The South Side of this large city (pop. 717,000) is the middle of Middle America, with a tavern on every corner. The families are mostly blue-collar, third-and fourth-generation descendants of Poles, Italians, Germans and Serbians; they gave George McGovern a slight majority. South Siders talk about many things: family problems, rising truancy in schools, soaring property taxes, baseball and-a poor fifth-Watergate...
Construction of that part of the library will probably begin early in 1974, as soon as the MBTA vacates the Federally owned land at the corner of Boylston St. and Memorial Drive...
...until such sums shall be exhausted." A millionaire by inheritance ("He didn't do anything," says one drinking crony), McKelvy laid down no rules about how his money should be spent, whether on friends or strangers, regular customers or freeloaders. The manager at one bar, Gregory's Corner, has decided to start a guest book and to admit only the regulars to any party he throws with the gift. "That's a lot of booze, a lot of pouring," he says. "We don't want to throw open the doors. In a little place like this...
...from a Sanskrit word meaning empty. That is a harsh thought." She also cannot quite grasp that Lyndon is irrevocably gone. "The children and I find ourselves still speaking of him in the present tense. And when I'm reading a book, I find myself turning down the corner of a page, the way I always did when I wanted to talk to him about that passage. The worst time is early morning. Lyndon woke earlier and earlier in those last years-I really didn't like it much. But as early as 6:30 we would...
Filling one corner of the theater, Wayne Mitchell's elaborate set enhances the illusion of dream. Mitchell has included every detail -- the torn green couch, the faded rug, the moldy wallpaper -- as if to say: if you had been stifled in this apartment for so long, you too would remember all its soiled and tattered furnishings. The potential weight of this massive set dissolves under Donnally Miller's lighting. By highlighting or spotlighting the actors, he at once casts most of the state into the dusk of memory and infuses the room with the state of mind the actors...