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Dates: during 1970-1979
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State officials blame the foul-up on their decision to use California's list of three-letter, three-digit combinations rather than prepare their own. The officials tried to eliminate prefixes that might be offensive to Iowans but overlooked GAY. Says Scott County Treasurer William Cusack: "Out in California I'm sure there is a waiting line for GAY plates. But not in Iowa." He is offering to exchange the GAY plates-1,000 were issued -on payment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Licentious Plates | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...Ionia, Mich., two bedfellows are making for strange politics. Robert Cusack, 38, and his wife Beverly, 35, who are both real estate agents, have been arguing at home about politics for years. Now they are both running for the same county commission seat, he as a Democrat, she as a Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Battle of the Sexes | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...Fleming of Bloomfield, N.J., who twice has finished second, Mexico's Mario Cuevas and Toronto's Jerome Drayton (2:10.08 lifetime best). But the excitement of the Boston Marathon is in part due to the unpredictability of the finish: dark horse runners often manage to upset the favorites (Rodgers, Cusack and Fultz all fit into that category) so it's best to be prepared for the unexpected...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders and Michael Kendall, S | Title: Runners Come East to Marathon Mecca | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...Dublin dialect, while invariably musical, is sometimes irritatingly impenetrable. In a troupe that plays well, but not always together, Cyril Cusack stands out as a sly, roguish charmer. Siobhan McKenna, a woman seemingly larger of spirit than any role she fills, makes Bessie Burgess a matron of blood, steel and tears. T.E. Kalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Dubliners Undaunted | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

Though two of the Abbey's finest actors, Cyril Cusack and Siobhan McKenna, returned for this production, the acting somehow seems stagey and lackluster. Surface characterization is emphasized at the expense of deeper emotional involvement. Siobhan McKenna plays Bessie Burgess with grandeur but drops the ends of her lines; Scorcha Cusack staggers a bit too much as Nora. Bill Foley, as Peter Flynn, says his lines as though reading them for the first time. Maire O'Neil, as the prostitute Rosie, makes immediate some of O'Casey's profoundest lines, his true revolutionary credo of communism--but her characterization slips...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: A Terrible Beauty Stillborn | 12/3/1976 | See Source »

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