Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...murder. It makes Guildenstern's lines "The king ... is in his retirement marvelous distempered..." seem absurd, for we have just seen the king perfectly unmoved. Again, in the final scene, Miller creates a contradiction when he has Claudius invite Hamlet to kill him, and willingly accept the poison cup, because his sense of politics makes him realize that he is done for as a king, anyway. This is remarkably silly, arguing that a man who has done so much to gain a crown will give it up willingly...
...Chasey and Ed Marinaro have been named co-winners of the first annual Asa S. Bushnell Cup for the Ivy League's player of the year in football...
...recently left his job as a shoe salesman to help rehabilitate other addicts. As far as heroin is concerned, he is clean. Still, Dan Smith (not his real name) is an addict of sorts. Every morning he stops at Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center to down a cup of Tang spiked with methadone, a synthetic drug that he takes to overcome his craving for heroin...
Intramural athletics moves into its second phase with perennially tough Eliot House once again leading the race for the Straus Cup...
...learns the true meaning both of Christmas and his own life. In his first screen or stage appearance in a few years, he is drastically disappointing. Finney grumbles and hobbles through his part, employing mannerism instead of nuance. He scores now and again, as when he tipsily accepts another cup of the Milk of Human Kindness (yes, it's that kind of movie) from the Ghost of Christmas Present, but such isolated moments from an actor of his stature are slender fare indeed. Sir Alec Guinness materializes from time to time as the ghost of Scrooge...