Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your Rockefeller cover portrait carved out of granite or ice? Either one fits his personality, and they both crack under pressure...
...University's acquisition map, and Harvard clearly does not want to, nor feels any obligation to, relinquish the land to the "community." Just so, the Purchase Option Plan will insure that none of these properties leaves University control. If an owner wishes to sell, Harvard will have first crack at the house, and if a tenant ends his employment with the University, he must relinquish the house...
Happy Days is a two-act, two-character play by Samuel Beckett that proves to be the toughest nut that the Summer School Repertory Theater has tried to crack all season. Joanne Hamlin plays the eternally-optimistic Winnie in what turns out to be a tour de force performance. Throughout the show Hamlin, who has about 95 per cent of all the spoken lines in the play, is buried in a mound of sand, and it is a wonder she can carry her own enthusiasm let alone Winnie's. Despite Hamlin's excellent job, the show is not all that...
...court's unanimity began to crack with split votes in 1972 on attempts to re-juggle school-district boundaries. The first hint that the balance might decisively tip came last year. By a 4-to-4 vote, the court rejected an appeals court's plan to join Richmond with two suburban school systems for purposes of desegregation; because the vote was a tie, it established no clear precedent...
...fadeout and credits. Nothing happens. Soon the smile begins to stiffen at the edges, grow nervous. Gamely, still in character, the anchor man shuffles script pages on his desk, making official-looking marks in the upper right corners. Still nothing. His composure never crumbles, just begins to crack. Smile still in place, if just a little askew, the anchor man starts to slip slowly off his chair, and down out of camera range beneath his desk. For laughs it beats the Today show clean...