Word: deeps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fighting gallantly against a book that deep-sixes its protagonists by the halfway point is a sweatingly exuberant cast. Doing his annual turn as a blonde-coiffed mountain is the estimable Bob Peabody, whose delicate elephant walk and open-mouthed grin (in which a Sopwith Camel could do circus loops without destroying the bridgework) remind one of a cross between Everest and Margaret Dumont. He is a natural wonder and a natural comedian. Mark Szpak's slithering, thrilling Juana deBoise puts him in a class with Lupe Velez and Luis Tiant--all unintelligible delights. David Levi as Sonya Vabitsche looks...
...disappoints me that even though we Canadians have aided you freezing Americans in such a time of distress, not one iota of coverage has been dedicated to our "deep-freeze." We're cold too, you know...
...Egypt are the oldest "nation state" in history. As such, we enjoy the benefits of the deep roots of values and beliefs that kept us through the difficult ups and downs of history. We emerged into the modern world with a deep sense of identity and with an accumulation of human beliefs and experiences that are helping us to face the process of rapid modernization. We have to achieve in days what you achieved in years, because many centuries have passed while we were suffering from retardation, stagnation and foreign domination...
...industry was jolted last week by bad legal news that involved drilling below two widely separated stretches of water. The Government voiced deep suspicion that major companies are not producing as much natural gas as they could from beneath the Gulf of Mexico, and a federal judge issued an order that will in effect forestall drilling for oil off the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey...
...silhouette a factory on the horizon. But this kind of staginess can also be distracting: an imposingly literal set of cherry trees all but overruns a house in Act I; a little girl bearing cherry blossoms self-consciously tiptoes into the old servant Firs' death scene. The high, deep stage-space forces the cast to play to a scale larger than that of Chekhov's text (here rendered into colloquial English by Jean-Claude van Itallie...