Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yards away, another writer was playing a joke on Jane Curtain, an attractive "Saturday Night" actress. The writer had taken a surgical glove and stretched it tightly across the top of a quarter. The coin stuck to the underside of the glove, but the rubber was so thin that the quarter appeared to be sitting upon it. He walked over to Curtain's desk and pressed the top of the quarter, which fell magically to the desk, and the writer walked away giggling, leaving Curtain to try to find a nonexistent hole in the glove. "Stupid trick," Curtain shouted...
...darkness decended, scoring a run on Jim Peccerillo's base hit to left after an error and a double by Goetz, but the relay from third base on the play caught Goetz trying to score. Pinch hitter Mike Lynch's line drive to left was gloved, and the curtain fell on another loss for Loyal Park's troops...
...convincing narrative in their sequel to the bestselling All the President's Men. They do not alter the broad outlines of the now-familiar drama of Watergate. But with their spare, police-beat style, they do manage to pin down each painful, often poignant detail as the curtain dropped on a collapsing President and an embittered staff...
...love Mary Hartman," he told TIME'S Leo Janos last week. "It's outrageous . . . outrageous! And the freedom! It's a story that goes on forever. No first-act curtain to worry about; no second-act resolution scene. Soap opera is a hell of an exciting form. Especially the way we are doing it, on two levels. Funny on one level and an intense human interest story on the other...
FICTION 1-Curtain, Christie (1 last week) 2-The Choirboys, Wambaugh (2) 3-Saving the Queen, Buckley (4) 4-Ragtime, Docforow (3) 5-1876, Vidal (7) 6-Trinity, Uris 7-The Gemini Contenders, Ludlum (9) 8-The Boys from Brazil, Levin 9-In the Beginning, Potok (5) 10-Nightwork, Show...