Word: decays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unwanted and lonely Mr. Sloan (Mike Samols) enters the sheltered lives of Kath, a middle-aged woman: her crotchety old father Kemp and her effeminate brother Ed. Kath and her father live in a tenement that borders on a dump, and emotionally their lives are steeped in trash and decay as well. The play delves into the complex lover's triangle that develops between Sloan, Kath--who becomes his land-lady and Ed who becomes his employer. To round off the plot, Kemp is the only witness who can prove that Sloan murdered the old father's boss...
Most affected under the federal regulations are Classic C" wastes which do not decay for up to 500 years and must be solidified and hurried 15 meters underground. Among Harvard's only a needle or two from the cyclotron" would fall into this category, Parker I. Cuddington Harvard director of government relations said yesterday...
...ship with an awful crunching sound. Said Prince Charles after the near disaster: "I was slightly horrified, [but] the important thing is to be British and stay calm." Luckily, no serious damage was done. Wrapped in plastic sheeting and constantly sprayed with sea water to prevent further decay, the Mary Rose was soon en route to Portsmouth Harbor, culminating the most expensive ($7 million) underwater archaeological salvage operation in history...
...Favorite Year's innocuousness has its virtues: because of the film's eagerness to please, even the stalest jokes and cliches have a short half-life, and evoke a comfortable haze of nostalgia as they decay. The directing also comes a pleasant surprise. While always irritating and oily as an actor. Richard Benjamin turns out to be quite skillful behind the camera. He doesn't overwhelm with individual touches, but he does keep things moving deftly along, and he has had the good sense to let O'Toole follow his own course. My Favorite Year was produced by Mel Brooks...
...Montmartre is not the South Side of Chicago. There is an aura of mellow stability which hangs over the neighborhood a sense of slow, peaceful decay that contrasts sharply with the frenetic growth and change in even the seediest sectors of American life. The Montmartre underworld is an established sector of society much like any other, a moral order governs almost everyone, and violence and change are rare...