Word: cue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal pension. The Nixons also still have Manolo and Fina Sanchez as personal servants. Manolo, his former White House valet, has taken on a strange chore in the entertainment of male guests. Nixon, who likes off-color stories but hates to tell them, often gives Manolo a sort of cue, like "Manolo, tell him the one about the girl in the bikini...
...when Laurette is not on stage giving the audience its cue to laugh at all this--which is most of the time--the humor tends to get lost in the melodrama. It isn't fair to blame the actors or the production entirely for what is, at least in Hellman's eyes, the failure of the play. The play is intended to be uneven, in the sense that it veers from comedy to tragedy, and it is often difficult for both the audience and the actors to keep up with it. As far as the acting, it calls for deft...
...prices high by restricting imports. U.S. state legislatures, influenced by the new vogue of free competition, passed laws permitting any investors who met minimum qualifications to set up a corporation; previously, each corporation had to be chartered separately, and the charters amounted to grants of monopoly power. Almost on cue, some wonders followed?both beneficent and malign...
Educational Resources Group, CUE; Committee on Undergraduate Instruction; Exec. Comm., HRC; House Comm; Editor, Trunkline; PBH legal Committee; Radcliffe Choral Society; Harvard Dramatic Club; Harvard Cheerleader; Junior Day Comm.; MIT-Harvard-Wellesley Flying Club; Longy School of Music; Women's Self-Government Assan...
...volatile, self-inflated character remains as elusive on the last page as on the first. Terminal questions linger: Did conditions create the man, or did he create events? Was he a gifted charlatan, or Moses redivivus? It is only certain that he appeared and disappeared as if on celestial cue, leaving his work to more stable founders and builders. Unhappily, as this biography reluctantly demonstrates, the man was all too human-a naif, a hack and a monomaniac. Probably a touch of madness ran in his blood: two of his three children were suicides; so was his only grandchild...