Word: curtained
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...Minister in dinner-party conversation. He has gone to the trouble of acquiring a canvas by Churchill, an amateur painter of some note. Two years after Weinberger became Defense Secretary, he chose to schedule a speech at Westminster College, the tiny Missouri school where Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" address in 1946. Though he employs a speechwriting staff of four, Weinberger insisted on writing much of the speech himself, including its most memorable passage. "We are perhaps in danger of becoming a nation of ascetic systems analysts," he said, "without the glowing fire and the vision and the ability...
...onstage Doris Troy presides over the service; this is her story, and she is playing her own mother. The show was written by Vy Higginsen (Troy's sister) and Kenneth Wydro (Higginsen's husband); Higginsen frequently plays the narrator, and her brother Randy plays the minister. After the rousing curtain call, Randy moves to the theater exit and, ever the good shepherd, greets the congregation as it leaves...
...ever quite as it seems. Women constantly disguising as men, fools providing wisdom to elderly sages--you name the incongruity, and chances are, it's there. Yet somehow, amidst such seeming chaos, playwright and characters always manage to extricate themselves from confusion and discover matrimonial bliss before the final curtain falls...
Joined in a conspiracy of defiance, the curious opening night crowd enjoyed the pleasant sensation, so rare in our permissive age, of eating forbidden fruit. As the curtain rose for A.R.T.'s production of Endgame, a roar of applause--a symbolic note thumbed at Beckett's demands--greeted the unconventional...
...hurt by revelations that at least four secret-police officers were involved in the murder. The "Jablonna V" International Meeting of Journalists provided a timely opportunity for Jaruzelski to revive his efforts to end Poland's isolation. He assured his listeners that he wanted "to work with the curtain...